Knowledge, attitude, perception, and preventative practices towards COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

• Ugochinyere Ijeoma Nwagbara ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 216045259@stu.ukzn.ac.za, ugochinyereijeoma@gmail.com

  Affiliation Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Campus, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1771-0570

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• Emmanuella Chinonso Osual,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa

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• Rumbidzai Chireshe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Campus, Durban, South Africa

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• Obasanjo Afolabi Bolarinwa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Campus, Durban, South Africa, Department of demography and social statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9208-6408

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• Balsam Qubais Saeed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3105-5501

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• Nelisiwe Khuzwayo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Discipline of Rural Health, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Campus, Durban, South Africa

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• Khumbulani W. Hlongwana

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Campus, Durban, South Africa

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