Prevalence and Predictors of Pulmonary Tuberculosis among Prison Inmates in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 4

Subgroup analysis of the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis among prison inmates in SSA, 2020.

Variables	Characteristics	Included studies	Sample size	Prevalence with 95% CI
Country	Ethiopia	14	5,475	9.22 (6.59, 11.85)
	Nigeria	4	2,386	2.34 (0.40, 4.58)
	Malawi	2	6,011	4.00 (1.1, 9.11)
	Uganda	2	388	8.15 (2.47, 18.79)
	South Africa	4	38,600	5.56 (3.61, 7.50)
	Zambia	3	10,989	11.68 (5.61, 17.75)
	Cameroon	2	2,386	3.92 (3.14, 4.71)
	Côte d’Ivoire	1	943	9.33 (7.46, 11.19)
	Ghana	2	260	2.46 (0.58, 4.34)
	Tanzania	1	448	3.57 (1.85, 5.29)
	DRC	2	1,651	19.72 (15.86, 23.59)
Sample size	<384	17	3,425	8.5 (6.00, 11.01)
	≥384	20	69,419	7.3 (6.07, 8.52)
Publication year	<2015	17	24,943	6.72 (5.16, 8.28)
	≥2015	20	47,901	9.01 (7.10, 10.92)