Precision Medicine in Africa: Promises and Opportunities
The relevance of genomic medicine embodies using an individual's genomics and molecular genetic information to personalize treatment and predict drug response to ensure safer and more cost-effective therapies. An African framework for implementing genomic medicine was recently developed to highlight...
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| description | The relevance of genomic medicine embodies using an individual's genomics and molecular genetic information to personalize treatment and predict drug response to ensure safer and more cost-effective therapies. An African framework for implementing genomic medicine was recently developed to highlight the elements required within the African context and provide some recommendations on how African countries can work on putting them in place by building on existing infrastructure. These measures would enable resource-limited countries to implement appropriate genomics-based health-related interventions, drawing on experiences from elsewhere but adapting to the African context where necessary. In developing the framework, the existing genomic medicine activities in Africa were investigated. This book aims to describe the current status of precision medicine and discuss the clinical studies related to precision medicine that have been conducted on African populations to improve healthcarein Africa. This book comprises three sections: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, and bioinformatics tools and resources. Each section is covered in several chapters, each dealing with a specific disease or group of diseases together with the necessary formalism. Based on existing literature, the collection summarizes Africa's state of the art of genomics and precision medicine activities. The book is helpful for researchers, clinicians, and policymakers; the secondary audience is students, funders, and healthcare staff. This is an open access book. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1696282025-11-29T07:38:48Z Precision Medicine in Africa: Promises and Opportunities Radouani, Fouzia Zass, Lyndon Fadlelmola, Faisal M. Genomics medicine Precision medicine Communicable diseases Bioinformatics tools AI in medicine Healthcare in Africa Open Access thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBG Medical equipment and techniques::MBGR Medical research thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAX Computational biology / bioinformatics thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence The relevance of genomic medicine embodies using an individual's genomics and molecular genetic information to personalize treatment and predict drug response to ensure safer and more cost-effective therapies. An African framework for implementing genomic medicine was recently developed to highlight the elements required within the African context and provide some recommendations on how African countries can work on putting them in place by building on existing infrastructure. These measures would enable resource-limited countries to implement appropriate genomics-based health-related interventions, drawing on experiences from elsewhere but adapting to the African context where necessary. In developing the framework, the existing genomic medicine activities in Africa were investigated. This book aims to describe the current status of precision medicine and discuss the clinical studies related to precision medicine that have been conducted on African populations to improve healthcarein Africa. This book comprises three sections: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, and bioinformatics tools and resources. Each section is covered in several chapters, each dealing with a specific disease or group of diseases together with the necessary formalism. Based on existing literature, the collection summarizes Africa's state of the art of genomics and precision medicine activities. The book is helpful for researchers, clinicians, and policymakers; the secondary audience is students, funders, and healthcare staff. This is an open access book. 2025-11-29T07:38:48Z 2025-11-29T07:38:48Z 2025-11-28T12:21:57Z 2026 book ONIX_20251128T131701_9789819689590_44 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108700 9789819689590 9789819689583 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/169628 eng Medicine; Medicine (R0) open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/108700/1/9789819689590.pdf Springer Nature Springer 10.1007/978-981-96-8959-0 10.1007/978-981-96-8959-0 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a f45c20f7-ab9b-4fd5-89fc-167ea0293037 9789819689590 9789819689583 Springer 243 Singapore [...] open access |
| spellingShingle | Genomics medicine Precision medicine Communicable diseases Bioinformatics tools AI in medicine Healthcare in Africa Open Access thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBG Medical equipment and techniques::MBGR Medical research thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAX Computational biology / bioinformatics thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence Precision Medicine in Africa: Promises and Opportunities |
| title | Precision Medicine in Africa: Promises and Opportunities |
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| title_short | Precision Medicine in Africa: Promises and Opportunities |
| title_sort | precision medicine in africa promises and opportunities |
| topic | Genomics medicine Precision medicine Communicable diseases Bioinformatics tools AI in medicine Healthcare in Africa Open Access thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBG Medical equipment and techniques::MBGR Medical research thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAX Computational biology / bioinformatics thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence |
| topic_facet | Genomics medicine Precision medicine Communicable diseases Bioinformatics tools AI in medicine Healthcare in Africa Open Access thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBG Medical equipment and techniques::MBGR Medical research thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAX Computational biology / bioinformatics thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence |
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