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Table 1 ‘Search Terms and Strategy’

From: ‘Mankind owes to the child the best that it has to give’: prison conditions and the health situation and rights of children incarcerated with their mothers in sub-Saharan African prisons

Key Word

Alternative

Children in Prisons

Circumstantial children in prisons, OR children accompanying their mothers in prison, OR children imprisoned with their mothers , OR children incarcerated with their mothers

Research evidence

AND availability and accessibility of healthcare OR availability of nutrition OR availability of basic necessities OR availability of HIV/AIDS treatment OR physical environment structure

African Countries

Sub Saharan Africa OR Africa OR and the names of all the individual countries in Sub Saharan Africa

1. Children in prisons

2. Circumstantial children in prisons OR children accompanying their mothers in prison OR children imprisoned with their mothers OR children incarcerated with their mothers

3. OR health services availability and accessibility, OR availability of basic necessities OR availability of nutrition, OR availability of HIV/IDS treatment, OR physical environment) AND

4 Africa

Databases were searched using the appropriate subject headings and/or keywords or text words for the above search groups:

Sample Search (Pubmed Central) searched on 29-03-2018

#    Searches           Results

1. Circumstantial children in prisons OR children accompanying their mothers in prisons OR Children imprisoned with their mothers OR children incarcerated with their mothers

2. Health services availability and accessibility OR availability of basic necessities OR availability of nutrition OR availability of HIV/IDS treatment, OR physical environment) AND Africa 197