Table 1. A list of some of the common genomics initiatives in Africa.

INITIATIVE	FOCUS	ADDRESS/ CONTACT
African Pharmacogenomics Consortium (APC)	The genetics of drug effectiveness (meetings, training workshops, conferences, collaborations)	Current initiative (website to be developed) ( bsiddondo@strathmore.edu)
The African Society for Human Genetics (AfSHG)	Annual conferences/meetings	https://www.afshg.org/
African Human Genome Initiative	Lectures, conferences, discussions	www.africagenome.co.za
H3Africa	Genomics and environmental determinants of disease	https://h3africa.org
MalariaGEN	Malaria genomic epidemiology Network, focussing on effects of genetic variation on the biology and epidemiology of malaria	www.malariagen.net
H3ABioNet	pan-African bioinformatics network	https://www.h3abionet.org/
the Southern African Human Genome Project	Understanding of DNA variation among southern Africans and how this impact on the health of the people of our country.	https://sahgp.sanbi.ac.za
African Genome Variation Project	Aims to collect essential information about the structure of African genomes to provide a basic framework for genetic disease studies in Africa	https://www.sanger.ac.uk /science/collaboration/ african-genome-variation-project