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the lack of African genetic material in the global medical field constitutes a significant obstacle to understanding how our bodies and diseases function the African genome are not only humanity's always but almost Devas and that diversity holds within it an almost limitless potential from certificate rules to nucleus to learning humanity's history each other our children about ourselves about 99 percent of all our genetic information comes from Africa and the rest of the world just took a fraction of our genetic diversity with them to other areas with a planet buttress in Africa have held the vast majority of humanity's DNA and as we in the murid and reproduced the diversity remained buffeted and transformed by the environmental pressures including diseases tapping into that diversity has implications for all of us and possibly the solution of saving the world from a future pandemic according to dr. Abbas en airborne the founder and CEO of Africa biotech start-up 54 gene black Africans and people of black ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other populations in the world combined making the genetic information a huge resource to be tapped so 54g in the 54 there represents the 54 countries in Africa which obviously tells you that we want to expand across the continent and the gene that means that at heart we are genetic in terms of how we apply what we do so to tell you what we do we provide genetic testing directly to consumers and to hospitals in Africa dr. Bassett said that knowledge of the role of genetic plays in disease will help in developing relevant treatment for new and existing conditions event cancer the cares one issue that we find in in Africa in Nigeria - we have cancer you go to see a doctor because they don't we haven't built the genetic capability in the country the doctor prescribes a drug for you blindly right when I say blindly what we mean is that today's cancer drugs have been made to target specific subtypes of cancers he was quoted saying drugs are not even made with Africans in mind they are not child clinically within African populations so what you have is drugs with lower efficiency for African populations and it's poorer safety profiles he added our goal is to make sure that people are being diagnosed and treated using similar standards of care that you will find in UK and the United States neo drugs take time to reach Africa sometimes between 15 and 20 years this is because form acetic aliens often manufactured drugs for the profitable Western markets and the generic variants are only available in Africa after these companies have lost their patents dr. Abbasi further added that they way to fix this lag is to increase access to genomic data from African population to promote inclusive scientific research this will lead to an optimized treatment and diagnostic outcomes that will not only treat Africans but everyone else around the planet by the end of this year we'll have genomic samples of 40,000 people coupled with your medical records and you know by the end of next you'll probably have close to half a million now that powers drug research the goal is the reason we do that is that we find that African genetic information is actually valuable for to understanding mutations that you can't model as drugs in conclusion we have lived the longest as humans on the African continent and that has a very very important implication for understanding how forces that exist on the continent help shape the present-day human genome either in terms of how to survive infectious disease or to survive the environment if you like informative and educational videos on Africa make sure to LIKE subscribe indeed the notification bell to catch all our latest videos and please feel free to leave your suggestions news tips or topics about Africa you'd like us to cover