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Stroke registers are recommended as a key priority by the Lancet Neurology World Stroke Organisation Commission for Stroke, 2023, and the African Stroke Leaders’ Summit, 2022.

This scoping review aims to map where stroke registers have been implemented in SSA. The article then compares and critiques the methods and definitions used and summarizes key results from the registers.

We identified 42 unique stroke registers from 48 individual studies. The registers were located in 20 countries, with 19 from East Africa, 15 West Africa, six Central Africa and two from Southern Africa. Cumulatively, the registers recruited 12,345 participants with stroke, the median number of participants was 183 (IQR:121-312) and the range was 50-1018. Only one study was a population-based register and 41 were hospital-based registers. Of the hospital-based registers, 29 were single site, 10 were …