Southern African Society for Human Genetics (SASHG)

The Southern African Society for Human Genetics is a multi-disciplinary non-discriminatory society with the aims of advancing the practice in science of Human Genetics in Southern Africa, facilitating contact between the various disciplines involved with the field, maintaining the highest ethical and professional standards and providing a forum through which education and contact can be maintained. Aims:
• to promote and advance the practice and science of human and medical genetics in Southern Africa
• to facilitate contact between persons in the different branches of human and medical genetics
• to maintain the highest ethical and professional standards in all its affairs and activities
• to arrange conferences and symposia
• to initiate contact with similar organizations in other parts of the world
• to practice its affairs in a non-profit making and non-discriminatory manner