Systematic Scoping Review to support the creation of a holistic approach to the regulation of community medicine markets in Uganda: Final search strategies Search methods A draft search strategy was compiled in the OvidSP Medline ALL database by an experienced information specialist. The search strategy included strings of terms and synonyms to reflect the following concepts: Concept 1: drug shops Concept 2: sub-Saharan Africa No limits were added to the search. The search strategy was refined with the project team until the retrieved results reflected the scope of the project. The following databases were searched on 27 March 2024: OvidSP Medline ALL; OvidSP Embase; OvidSP Global Health; EBSCOhost Africa-Wide Information; Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Content; Elsevier Scopus. The draft search was adapted for each of the databases to incorporate database-specific syntax and controlled vocabularies. All results from the database searches were exported and uploaded to EndNote 21 software. Duplicates were identified and removed using the method described on the LAORS blog (Falconer, Jane, Removing duplicates from an EndNote library. Library & Archives Service Blog: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. 2018. [online blog] http://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/library/2018/12/07/removing-duplicates-from-an-endnote-library/). Search strategies This appendix provides full details of all search strings used for bibliographic databases, with dates and number of references returned and notes explaining any unusual search techniques or syntax. OvidSP Medline ALL Database name Medline ALL Database platform OvidSP Dates of database coverage 1946 to March 26, 2024 Date searched 2024-03-27 Number of results 1062 EndNote deduplication order 1 Results after duplications removed 1046 Notes Search lines ending in a ‘/’ are subject heading searches. Search lines beginning ‘exp’ are exploded subject heading searches. Two-letter codes at the end of search lines designate the fields to search. Fields codes used are: TI: title AB: abstract adjn searches for words within n words of each other. or/x-y combines search sets in the range x-y with Boolean operator OR. * is used for truncation of words. ? finds 0 or 1 character in that placeholder (optional wildcard). words in square brackets […] are comments and are ignored. 1 drug* shop*.ti,ab. 259 2 ((communit* or local*) adj2 (medicine* or drug*) adj2 market*).ti,ab. 34 3 ((drug* or medicine* or chemic*) adj2 (seller* or vendor*)).ti,ab. 540 4 ((informal provider* or private retail) adj2 (medicine* or drug*)).ti,ab. 11 5 ((unlicens* or unlicenc*) adj3 (drug* or medicine*) adj2 (sell* or vendor* or retail* or shop* or market*)).ti,ab. 13 6 (communit* pharmac* or chemist).ti,ab. 11759 7 (private clinic or private clinics).ti,ab. 2828 8 or/1-7 15301 9 exp "Africa South of the Sahara"/ 267248 10 ("Africa South of the Sahara" or sub-Saharan Africa or subSaharan Africa).ti,ab. 30683 11 Central Africa.ti,ab. 3937 12 Eastern Africa.ti,ab. 1336 13 Southern Africa.ti,ab. 5485 14 Western Africa.ti,ab. 1082 15 Angola/ 1168 16 Angola.ti,ab. 1812 17 Cameroon/ 6721 18 (Cameroon or Kamerun or Cameroun).ti,ab. 8973 19 Cape Verde/ 263 20 (Cape Verde or Cabo Verde).ti,ab. 804 21 Comoros/ 386 22 (Comoros or Glorioso Islands or Mayotte).ti,ab. 751 23 Congo/ 2039 24 (Congo not ((Democratic Republic adj3 Congo) or congo red or crimean-congo)).ti,ab. 3067 25 Cote d'Ivoire/ 3638 26 (Cote d'Ivoire or Cote dIvoire or Ivory Coast).ti,ab. 4644 27 Eswatini/ 792 28 (eSwatini or Swaziland).ti,ab. 1226 29 Ghana/ 11741 30 (Ghana or Gold Coast).ti,ab. 16170 31 Kenya/ 20105 32 (Kenya or East Africa Protectorate).ti,ab. 23607 33 Lesotho/ 561 34 (Lesotho or Basutoland).ti,ab. 1004 35 Mauritania/ 510 36 Mauritania.ti,ab. 773 37 Nigeria/ 35053 38 Nigeria.ti,ab. 37870 39 (Sao Tome adj2 Principe).ti,ab. 211 40 Senegal/ 6321 41 Senegal.ti,ab. 6767 42 Sudan/ 5259 43 (Sudan not South Sudan).ti,ab. 9022 44 Zambia/ 5683 45 (Zambia or Northern Rhodesia).ti,ab. 7003 46 Zimbabwe/ 6690 47 (Zimbabwe or Southern Rhodesia).ti,ab. 7129 48 Botswana/ 2244 49 (Botswana or Bechuanaland or Kalahari).ti,ab. 3352 50 Equatorial Guinea/ 325 51 (Equatorial Guinea or Spanish Guinea).ti,ab. 532 52 Gabon/ 1660 53 (Gabon or Gabonese Republic).ti,ab. 2091 54 Mauritius/ 634 55 (Mauritius or Agalega Islands).ti,ab. 1198 56 Namibia/ 1346 57 (Namibia or German South West Africa).ti,ab. 2130 58 South Africa/ 50574 59 (South Africa or Cape Colony or British Bechuanaland or Boer Republics or Zululand or Transvaal or Natalia Republic or Orange Free State).ti,ab. 46014 60 Benin/ 1987 61 (Benin or Dahomey).ti,ab. 4347 62 Burkina Faso/ 4109 63 (Burkina Faso or Burkina Fasso or Upper Volta).ti,ab. 5540 64 Burundi/ 732 65 (Burundi or Ruanda-Urundi).ti,ab. 1168 66 Central African Republic/ 856 67 (Central African Republic or Ubangi-Shari).ti,ab. 1211 68 Chad/ 841 69 Chad.ti,ab. 1565 70 "Democratic Republic of the Congo"/ 5182 71 (((Democratic Republic or DR) adj2 Congo) or Congo-Kinshasa or Belgian Congo or Zaire or Congo Free State).ti,ab. 5643 72 Eritrea/ 428 73 Eritrea.ti,ab. 726 74 Ethiopia/ 20500 75 (Ethiopia or Abyssinia).ti,ab. 29503 76 Gambia/ 2748 77 Gambia.ti,ab. 2813 78 Guinea/ 1356 79 (Guinea not (New Guinea or Guinea Pig* or Guinea Fowl or Guinea-Bissau or Portuguese Guinea or Equatorial Guinea)).ti,ab. 3399 80 Guinea-Bissau/ 1045 81 (Guinea-Bissau or Portuguese Guinea).ti,ab. 1208 82 Liberia/ 1433 83 Liberia.ti,ab. 1988 84 Madagascar/ 3980 85 (Madagascar or Malagasy Republic).ti,ab. 5849 86 Malawi/ 6943 87 (Malawi or Nyasaland).ti,ab. 9372 88 Mali/ 2769 89 Mali.ti,ab. 4556 90 Mozambique/ 3136 91 (Mozambique or Mocambique or Portuguese East Africa).ti,ab. 4811 92 Niger/ 1472 93 (Niger not (Aspergillus or Peptococcus or Schizothorax or Cruciferae or Gobius or Lasius or Agelastes or Melanosuchus or radish or Parastromateus or Orius or Apergillus or Parastromateus or Stomoxys)).ti,ab. 4249 94 Rwanda/ 3264 95 (Rwanda or Ruanda).ti,ab. 4400 96 Sierra Leone/ 2007 97 (Sierra Leone or Salone).ti,ab. 3016 98 Somalia/ 1954 99 (Somalia or Somaliland).ti,ab. 2095 100 South Sudan/ 293 101 South Sudan.ti,ab. 843 102 Tanzania/ 14330 103 (Tanzania or Tanganyika or Zanzibar).ti,ab. 18032 104 Togo/ 1303 105 (Togo or Togolese Republic or Togoland).ti,ab. 1859 106 Uganda/ 15984 107 Uganda.ti,ab. 19892 108 Seychelles/ 458 109 Seychelles.ti,ab. 909 110 Sahel.ti,ab. 938 111 or/9-110 367406 112 8 and 111 1065 113 remove duplicates from 112 1062 Ovid SP Embase Classic+Embase Database name Embase Classic+Embase Database platform OvidSP Dates of database coverage 1947 to 2024 March 26 Date searched 2024-03-27 Number of results 1432 EndNote deduplication order 2 Results after duplications removed 508 Notes Search lines ending in a ‘/’ are subject heading searches. Search lines beginning ‘exp’ are exploded subject heading searches. Two-letter codes at the end of search lines designate the fields to search. Fields codes used are: TI: title AB: abstract adjn searches for words within n words of each other. or/x-y combines search sets in the range x-y with Boolean operator OR. * is used for truncation of words. ? finds 0 or 1 character in that placeholder (optional wildcard). words in square brackets […] are comments and are ignored. 1 drug* shop*.ti,ab. 345 2 ((communit* or local*) adj2 (medicine* or drug*) adj2 market*).ti,ab. 38 3 ((drug* or medicine* or chemic*) adj2 (seller* or vendor*)).ti,ab. 650 4 ((informal provider* or private retail) adj2 (medicine* or drug*)).ti,ab. 13 5 ((unlicens* or unlicenc*) adj3 (drug* or medicine*) adj2 (sell* or vendor* or retail* or shop* or market*)).ti,ab. 14 6 (communit* pharmac* or chemist).ti,ab. 21414 7 (private clinic or private clinics).ti,ab. 4536 8 or/1-7 26813 9 "Africa south of the Sahara"/ 18752 10 ("Africa South of the Sahara" or sub-Saharan Africa or subSaharan Africa).ti,ab. 36026 11 Central Africa.ti,ab. 4581 12 Eastern Africa.ti,ab. 1506 13 Southern Africa.ti,ab. 6072 14 Western Africa.ti,ab. 1147 15 Seychelles/ 590 16 Seychelles.ti,ab. 937 17 Benin/ 3389 18 (Benin or Dahomey).ti,ab. 5859 19 Burkina Faso/ 5776 20 (Burkina Faso or Burkina Fasso or Upper Volta).ti,ab. 6602 21 Burundi/ 1153 22 (Burundi or Ruanda-Urundi).ti,ab. 1294 23 Central African Republic/ 1119 24 (Central African Republic or Ubangi-Shari).ti,ab. 1335 25 Chad/ 1204 26 Chad.ti,ab. 2011 27 Democratic Republic Congo/ 5681 28 (((Democratic Republic or DR) adj2 Congo) or Congo-Kinshasa or Belgian Congo or Zaire or Congo Free State).ti,ab. 6630 29 Eritrea/ 776 30 Eritrea.ti,ab. 897 31 Ethiopia/ 29580 32 (Ethiopia or Abyssinia).ti,ab. 30187 33 Gambia/ 3446 34 Gambia.ti,ab. 3240 35 Guinea/ 3417 36 (Guinea not (New Guinea or Guinea Pig* or Guinea Fowl or Guinea-Bissau or Portuguese Guinea or Equatorial Guinea)).ti,ab. 4054 37 Guinea-Bissau/ 1301 38 (Guinea-Bissau or Portuguese Guinea).ti,ab. 1367 39 Liberia/ 2268 40 Liberia.ti,ab. 2322 41 Madagascar/ 5631 42 (Madagascar or Malagasy Republic).ti,ab. 6580 43 Malawi/ 10213 44 (Malawi or Nyasaland).ti,ab. 10952 45 Mali/ 4452 46 Mali.ti,ab. 5578 47 Mozambique/ 5147 48 (Mozambique or Mocambique or Portuguese East Africa).ti,ab. 5623 49 Niger/ 3045 50 (Niger not (Aspergillus or Peptococcus or Schizothorax or Cruciferae or Gobius or Lasius or Agelastes or Melanosuchus or radish or Parastromateus or Orius or Apergillus or Parastromateus or Stomoxys)).ti,ab. 5320 51 Rwanda/ 5178 52 (Rwanda or Ruanda).ti,ab. 5269 53 Sierra Leone/ 3234 54 (Sierra Leone or Salone).ti,ab. 3480 55 Somalia/ 2614 56 (Somalia or Somaliland).ti,ab. 2296 57 south sudan/ 577 58 South Sudan.ti,ab. 979 59 Tanzania/ 20608 60 (Tanzania or Tanganyika or Zanzibar).ti,ab. 21361 61 Togo/ 1892 62 (Togo or Togolese Republic or Togoland).ti,ab. 2161 63 Uganda/ 24720 64 Uganda.ti,ab. 24338 65 Angola/ 1928 66 Angola.ti,ab. 2104 67 Cameroon/ 9426 68 (Cameroon or Kamerun or Cameroun).ti,ab. 10596 69 Cape Verde/ 565 70 (Cape Verde or Cabo Verde).ti,ab. 842 71 Comoros/ 447 72 (Comoros or Glorioso Islands or Mayotte).ti,ab. 784 73 Congo/ 4840 74 (Congo not ((Democratic Republic adj3 Congo) or congo red or crimean-congo)).ti,ab. 4068 75 Cote d'Ivoire/ 4021 76 (Cote d'Ivoire or Cote dIvoire or Ivory Coast).ti,ab. 5483 77 eswatini/ 372 78 (eSwatini or Swaziland).ti,ab. 1427 79 Ghana/ 17206 80 (Ghana or Gold Coast).ti,ab. 18771 81 Kenya/ 27773 82 (Kenya or East Africa Protectorate).ti,ab. 28061 83 Lesotho/ 1058 84 (Lesotho or Basutoland).ti,ab. 1146 85 Mauritania/ 834 86 Mauritania.ti,ab. 874 87 Nigeria/ 49378 88 Nigeria.ti,ab. 47941 89 "sao tome and principe"/ 130 90 (Sao Tome adj2 Principe).ti,ab. 236 91 Senegal/ 8309 92 Senegal.ti,ab. 8340 93 Sudan/ 8906 94 (Sudan not South Sudan).ti,ab. 12069 95 Zambia/ 8453 96 (Zambia or Northern Rhodesia).ti,ab. 8356 97 Zimbabwe/ 8621 98 (Zimbabwe or Southern Rhodesia).ti,ab. 7672 99 Botswana/ 3549 100 (Botswana or Bechuanaland or Kalahari).ti,ab. 3974 101 Equatorial Guinea/ 608 102 (Equatorial Guinea or Spanish Guinea).ti,ab. 707 103 Gabon/ 2122 104 (Gabon or Gabonese Republic).ti,ab. 2395 105 Mauritius/ 1130 106 (Mauritius or Agalega Islands).ti,ab. 1308 107 Namibia/ 2164 108 (Namibia or German South West Africa).ti,ab. 2318 109 South Africa/ 65004 110 (South Africa or Cape Colony or British Bechuanaland or Boer Republics or Zululand or Transvaal or Natalia Republic or Orange Free State).ti,ab. 55122 111 sahel/ 197 112 sahel.ti,ab. 1003 113 or/9-112 419299 114 8 and 113 1448 115 remove duplicates from 114 1432 Ovid SP Global Health Database name Global Health Database platform OvidSP Dates of database coverage 1910 to 2024 week 12 Date searched 2024-03-27 Number of results 900 EndNote deduplication order 3 Results after duplications removed 194 Notes Search lines ending in a ‘/’ are subject heading searches. Search lines beginning ‘exp’ are exploded subject heading searches. Two-letter codes at the end of search lines designate the fields to search. Fields codes used are: TI: title AB: abstract adjn searches for words within n words of each other. or/x-y combines search sets in the range x-y with Boolean operator OR. * is used for truncation of words. ? finds 0 or 1 character in that placeholder (optional wildcard). words in square brackets […] are comments and are ignored. 1 drug* shop*.ti,ab. 217 2 ((communit* or local*) adj2 (medicine* or drug*) adj2 market*).ti,ab. 20 3 ((drug* or medicine* or chemic*) adj2 (seller* or vendor*)).ti,ab. 396 4 ((informal provider* or private retail) adj2 (medicine* or drug*)).ti,ab. 10 5 ((unlicens* or unlicenc*) adj3 (drug* or medicine*) adj2 (sell* or vendor* or retail* or shop* or market*)).ti,ab. 10 6 (communit* pharmac* or chemist).ti,ab. 2316 7 (private clinic or private clinics).ti,ab. 1105 8 or/1-7 3954 9 tropical africa/ or exp "africa south of sahara"/ 271993 10 congo basin/ 8 11 great rift valley/ 8 12 sadc countries/ 44745 13 ("Africa South of the Sahara" or sub-Saharan Africa or subSaharan Africa).ti,ab. 20978 14 Central Africa.ti,ab. 2932 15 Eastern Africa.ti,ab. 769 16 Southern Africa.ti,ab. 3436 17 Western Africa.ti,ab. 615 18 Angola.ti,ab. 1818 19 (Cameroon or Kamerun or Cameroun).ti,ab. 8138 20 (Cape Verde or Cabo Verde).ti,ab. 439 21 (Comoros or Glorioso Islands or Mayotte).ti,ab. 570 22 (Congo not (congo red or crimean-congo)).ti,ab. 8877 23 (Cote d'Ivoire or Cote dIvoire or Ivory Coast).ti,ab. 5376 24 (eSwatini or Swaziland).ti,ab. 1124 25 (Ghana or Gold Coast).ti,ab. 13665 26 (Kenya or East Africa Protectorate).ti,ab. 20808 27 (Lesotho or Basutoland).ti,ab. 835 28 Mauritania.ti,ab. 717 29 Nigeria.ti,ab. 37988 30 (Sao Tome adj2 Principe).ti,ab. 164 31 Senegal.ti,ab. 6496 32 Sudan.ti,ab. 9134 33 (Zambia or Northern Rhodesia).ti,ab. 6104 34 (Zimbabwe or Southern Rhodesia).ti,ab. 5918 35 (Botswana or Bechuanaland or Kalahari).ti,ab. 2491 36 (Equatorial Guinea or Spanish Guinea).ti,ab. 521 37 (Gabon or Gabonese Republic).ti,ab. 1911 38 (Mauritius or Agalega Islands).ti,ab. 1083 39 (Namibia or German South West Africa).ti,ab. 1243 40 (South Africa or Cape Colony or British Bechuanaland or Boer Republics or Zululand or Transvaal or Natalia Republic or Orange Free State).ti,ab. 31194 41 (Benin or Dahomey).ti,ab. 4413 42 (Burkina Faso or Burkina Fasso or Upper Volta).ti,ab. 6078 43 (Burundi or Ruanda-Urundi).ti,ab. 1218 44 (Central African Republic or Ubangi-Shari).ti,ab. 1278 45 Chad.ti,ab. 1612 46 (((Democratic Republic or DR) adj2 Congo) or Congo-Kinshasa or Belgian Congo or Zaire or Congo Free State).ti,ab. 6957 47 Eritrea.ti,ab. 780 48 (Ethiopia or Abyssinia).ti,ab. 21111 49 Gambia.ti,ab. 2962 50 (Guinea not (New Guinea or Guinea Pig* or Guinea Fowl or Guinea-Bissau or Portuguese Guinea or Equatorial Guinea)).ti,ab. 3445 51 (Guinea-Bissau or Portuguese Guinea).ti,ab. 1134 52 Liberia.ti,ab. 2058 53 (Madagascar or Malagasy Republic).ti,ab. 4416 54 (Malawi or Nyasaland).ti,ab. 7820 55 Mali.ti,ab. 3800 56 (Mozambique or Mocambique or Portuguese East Africa).ti,ab. 4077 57 (Niger not (Aspergillus or Peptococcus or Schizothorax or Cruciferae or Gobius or Lasius or Agelastes or Melanosuchus or radish or Parastromateus or Orius or Apergillus or Parastromateus or Stomoxys)).ti,ab. 4285 58 (Rwanda or Ruanda).ti,ab. 3241 59 (Sierra Leone or Salone).ti,ab. 2851 60 (Somalia or Somaliland).ti,ab. 1918 61 South Sudan.ti,ab. 759 62 (Tanzania or Tanganyika or Zanzibar).ti,ab. 16115 63 (Togo or Togolese Republic or Togoland).ti,ab. 1922 64 Uganda.ti,ab. 16784 65 Seychelles.ti,ab. 424 66 Sahel.ti,ab. 746 67 or/9-66 289428 68 8 and 67 903 69 remove duplicates from 68 900 EBSCOhost Africa-Wide Information Database name Africa-Wide Information Database platform EBSCOhost Dates of database coverage Complete database to search date Date searched 2024-03-27 Number of results 943 EndNote deduplication order 4 Results after duplications removed 213 Notes Two-letter codes at the start of search lines designate the fields to search. Fields codes used are: TI: title AB: abstract Nn searches for words within n words of each other. * is used for truncation of words. # finds 0 or 1 character in that placeholder (optional wildcard). 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volta" or burundi or "ruanda-urundi" or "central african republic" or "ubangi-shari" or chad or (("democratic republic" or dr) N2 congo) or "congo-kinshasa" or "belgian congo" or zaire or "congo free state" or eritrea or ethiopia or abyssinia or gambia or (guinea not ("new guinea" or "guinea pig*" or "guinea fowl")) or "guinea-bissau" or "portuguese guinea" or liberia or madagascar or "malagasy republic" or malawi or nyasaland or mali or mozambique or mocambique or "portuguese east africa" or (niger not (Aspergillus or Peptococcus or Schizothorax or Cruciferae or Gobius or Lasius or Agelastes or Melanosuchus or radish or Parastromateus or Orius or Apergillus or Parastromateus or Stomoxys)) or rwanda or ruanda or "sierra leone" or salone or somalia or somaliland or "south sudan" or tanzania or tanganyika or zanzibar or togo or "togolese republic" or togoland or uganda or seychelles or sahel )) or (AB ("africa south of the sahara" or "sub-Saharan Africa" or "subsaharan africa" or 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republic" or "mauritius" or "agalega islands" or "namibia" or "german south west africa" or "south africa" or "cape colony" or "british bechuanaland" or "boer republics" or "zululand" or "transvaal" or "natalia republic" or "orange free state" or "benin" or "dahomey" or "burkina faso" or "burkina fasso" or "upper volta" or "burundi" or "ruanda-urundi" or "central african republic" or "ubangi-shari" or "chad" or (("democratic republic" or "dr") NEAR/2 "congo") or "congo-kinshasa" or "belgian congo" or "zaire" or "congo free state" or "eritrea" or "ethiopia" or "abyssinia" or "gambia" or ("guinea" not ("new guinea" or "guinea pig*" or "guinea fowl")) or "guinea-bissau" or "portuguese guinea" or "liberia" or "madagascar" or "malagasy republic" or "malawi" or "nyasaland" or "mali" or "mozambique" or "mocambique" or "portuguese east africa" or ("niger" not ("Aspergillus" or "Peptococcus" or "Schizothorax" or "Cruciferae" or "Gobius" or "Lasius" or "Agelastes" or "Melanosuchus" or "radish" or "Parastromateus" or "Orius" or "Apergillus" or "Parastromateus" or "Stomoxys")) or "rwanda" or "ruanda" or "sierra leone" or "salone" or "somalia" or "somaliland" or "south sudan" or "tanzania" or "tanganyika" or "zanzibar" or "togo" or "togolese republic" or "togoland" or "uganda" or "seychelles" or "sahel" ) Results: 429724 2 TI=("africa south of the sahara" or "sub-Saharan Africa" or "subsaharan africa" or "central africa" or "eastern africa" or "southern africa" or "western africa" or "angola" or "cameroon" or "kamerun" or "cameroun" or "cape verde" or "cabo verde" or "comoros" or "glorioso islands" or "mayotte" or ("congo" not ("congo red" or "crimean-congo")) or "cote d'ivoire" or "cote divoire" or "ivory coast" or "eswatini" or "swaziland" or "ghana" or "gold coast" or "kenya" or "east africa protectorate" or "lesotho" or "basutoland" or "mauritania" or "nigeria" or ("sao tome" NEAR/2 "principe") or "senegal" or "sudan" or "zambia" or "northern rhodesia" or "zimbabwe" or "southern rhodesia" or "botswana" or "bechuanaland" or "kalahari" or "equatorial guinea" or "spanish guinea" or "gabon" or "gabonese republic" or "mauritius" or "agalega islands" or "namibia" or "german south west africa" or "south africa" or "cape colony" or "british bechuanaland" or "boer republics" or "zululand" or "transvaal" or "natalia republic" or "orange free state" or "benin" or "dahomey" or "burkina faso" or "burkina fasso" or "upper volta" or "burundi" or "ruanda-urundi" or "central african republic" or "ubangi-shari" or "chad" or (("democratic republic" or "dr") NEAR/2 "congo") or "congo-kinshasa" or "belgian congo" or "zaire" or "congo free state" or "eritrea" or "ethiopia" or "abyssinia" or "gambia" or ("guinea" not ("new guinea" or "guinea pig*" or "guinea fowl")) or "guinea-bissau" or "portuguese guinea" or "liberia" or "madagascar" or "malagasy republic" or "malawi" or "nyasaland" or "mali" or "mozambique" or "mocambique" or "portuguese east africa" or ("niger" not ("Aspergillus" or "Peptococcus" or "Schizothorax" or "Cruciferae" or "Gobius" or "Lasius" or "Agelastes" or "Melanosuchus" or "radish" or "Parastromateus" or "Orius" or "Apergillus" or "Parastromateus" or "Stomoxys")) or "rwanda" or "ruanda" or "sierra leone" or "salone" or "somalia" or "somaliland" or "south sudan" or "tanzania" or "tanganyika" or "zanzibar" or "togo" or "togolese republic" or "togoland" or "uganda" or "seychelles" or "sahel" ) Results: 401441 3 #1 OR #2 Results: 595217 4 TI=("private clinic" or "private clinics") or AB=("private clinic" or "private clinics") Results: 2417 5 TI=("communit* pharmac*" or "chemist") or AB=("communit* pharmac*" or "chemist") Results: 15786 6 TI=((unlicens* or unlicenc*) NEAR/3 (drug* or medicine*) NEAR/2 (sell* or vendor* or retail* or shop* or market*)) or AB=((unlicens* or unlicenc*) NEAR/3 (drug* or medicine*) NEAR/2 (sell* or vendor* or retail* or shop* or market*)) Results: 14 7 TI=(("informal provider*" or "private retail") NEAR/2 (medicine* or drug*)) or AB=(("informal provider*" or "private retail") NEAR/2 (medicine* or drug*)) Results: 12 8 TI=((drug* or medicine* or chemic*) NEAR/2 (seller* or vendor*)) or AB=((drug* or medicine* or chemic*) NEAR/2 (seller* or vendor*)) Results: 618 9 TI=((communit* or local*) NEAR/2 (medicine* or drug*) NEAR/2 market*) or AB=((communit* or local*) NEAR/2 (medicine* or drug*) NEAR/2 market*) Results: 75 10 TI="drug* shop*" or AB="drug* shop*" Results: 239 11 #4 OR #5 OR #6 OR #7 OR #8 OR #9 OR #10 Results: 19036 12 #3 AND #11 Results: 953 Elsevier Scopus Database name Scopus Database platform Elsevier scopus.com Dates of database coverage: Complete database to search date Date searched 2024-03-27 Number of results 1393 EndNote deduplication order 6 Results after duplications removed 255 Notes All searches run on the title and abstract. W/n searches for words within n words of each other. * is used for truncation of words. TITLE-ABS("drug* shop*" or ((communit* or local*) W/2 ("medicine* market*" or "drug* market*")) or ((drug* or medicine* or chemic*) W/2 (seller* or vendor*)) or (("informal provider*" or "private retail") W/2 (medicine* or drug*)) or (("unlicens* drug*" or "unlicens* medicine*" or "unlicenc* drug*" or "unlicenc* medicine*") W/3 (sell* or vendor* or retail* or shop* or market*)) or "communit* pharmac*" or chemist or "private clinic" or "private clinics") AND TITLE-ABS("africa south of the sahara" or "sub-Saharan Africa" or "subsaharan africa" or "central africa" or "eastern africa" or "southern africa" or "western africa" or angola or cameroon or kamerun or cameroun or "cape verde" or "cabo verde" or comoros or "glorioso islands" or mayotte or (congo and not ("congo red" or "crimean-congo")) or "cote d'ivoire" or "cote divoire" or "ivory coast" or eswatini or swaziland or ghana or "gold coast" or kenya or "east africa protectorate" or lesotho or basutoland or mauritania or nigeria or ("sao tome" W/2 principe) or senegal or sudan or zambia or "northern rhodesia" or zimbabwe or "southern rhodesia" or botswana or bechuanaland or kalahari or "equatorial guinea" or "spanish guinea" or gabon or "gabonese republic" or mauritius or "agalega islands" or namibia or "german south west africa" or "south africa" or "cape colony" or "british bechuanaland" or "boer republics" or zululand or transvaal or "natalia republic" or "orange free state" or benin or dahomey or "burkina faso" or "burkina fasso" or "upper volta" or burundi or "ruanda-urundi" or "central african republic" or "ubangi-shari" or chad or (("democratic republic" or dr) W/2 congo) or "congo-kinshasa" or "belgian congo" or zaire or "congo free state" or eritrea or ethiopia or abyssinia or gambia or (guinea and not ("new guinea" or "guinea pig*" or "guinea fowl")) or "guinea-bissau" or "portuguese guinea" or liberia or madagascar or "malagasy republic" or malawi or nyasaland or mali or mozambique or mocambique or "portuguese east africa" or (niger and not (Aspergillus or Peptococcus or Schizothorax or Cruciferae or Gobius or Lasius or Agelastes or Melanosuchus or radish or Parastromateus or Orius or Apergillus or Parastromateus or Stomoxys)) or rwanda or ruanda or "sierra leone" or salone or somalia or somaliland or "south sudan" or tanzania or tanganyika or zanzibar or togo or "togolese republic" or togoland or uganda or seychelles or sahel) 2 Jane Falconer Document updated: 22 April 2024 User Support Services Librarian jane.falconer@lshtm.ac.uk