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Table 2 SSA countries with HBS-related information in legislative/regulatory/guidance ethics documents

From: National ethics guidance in Sub-Saharan Africa on the collection and use of human biological specimens: a systematic review

Country

Ethics system guidance (Gen’l)

Specific HBS language

Ethics system guidance specific to HBS

HBS informed consent

HBS ownership

HBS reuse

HBS storage

HBS export import transfer

HBS materials or specimens transfer agreement

Angola

        

Benin

      

Botswana

Burkina Faso

     

Burundi

        

Cameroon

       

Cape Verde

        

Central African Rep.

        

Chad

        

Comoros

        

Rep. of Congo

        

Congo (DRC)

       

Cote d’Ivoire

        

Djibouti

        

Equatorial Guinea

       

Eritrea

        

Ethiopia

    

Gabon

       

The Gambia

Ghana

       

Rep. of Guinea

       

Guinea- Bissau

        

Kenya

 

 

Lesotho

       

Liberia

    

Madagascar

       

Malawi

 

Mali

       

Mauritania

        

Mauritius

       

Mozambique

     

 

Namibia

        

Niger

        

Nigeria

  

Rwanda

  

Sao Tome & Principe

        

Senegal

       

Seychelles

        

Sierra Leone

 

  

Somalia

        

South Africa

 

South Sudan

        

Sudan

 

   

Swaziland

        

Tanzania

 

Togo

        

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

   

TOTAL

29

17

14

6

10

9

12

13