Table 2.

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

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