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Smartphone-Based AI Screening for Moderate Anemia in Pregnant Women Using Eye and Tongue Images

Smartphone-Based AI Screening for Moderate Anemia in Pregnant Women Using Eye and Tongue Images

Affecting an estimated 12 million pregnant women annually in India, maternal anemia is a major contributor to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, ...

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India
2024
LLM-Powered Chatbot to Support the Informational Needs of Community Health Workers

LLM-Powered Chatbot to Support the Informational Needs of Community Health Workers

India’s public health system, which delivers last-mile services to over 900 million people, faces a persistent “data-to-action” gap that limits timely...

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India
2024
Machine Learning and AI Use Cases for Maternal Health Users on MomConnect

Machine Learning and AI Use Cases for Maternal Health Users on MomConnect

MomConnect is a flagship digital health programme of the South African National Department of Health, designed to strengthen maternal and child health...

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South Africa
2025
PROMPTS: AI-Enabled, Two-Way Messaging to Support Maternal and Newborn Health

PROMPTS: AI-Enabled, Two-Way Messaging to Support Maternal and Newborn Health

Maternal and newborn mortality in low- and middle-income countries remains unacceptably high, largely due to delays in care-seeking, limited access to...

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Kenya
2023

CerviScanner: AI-Assisted Cervical Cancer Screening to Bridge the Diagnostic Divide in Africa

Cervical cancer remains highly preventable, yet 94% of deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries where screening quality is constrained by infr...

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Rwanda
2025
Thermalytix: Privacy-Preserving AI for Breast Cancer Screening

Thermalytix: Privacy-Preserving AI for Breast Cancer Screening

Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer mortality among women in the Global South, largely due to late-stage detection driven by socio-cultural bar...

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India
2017
Leading with AI: Kerala’s Nayanamritham 2.0 - A Government-Led AI-Assisted Chronic Eye Disease Screening Initiative

Leading with AI: Kerala’s Nayanamritham 2.0 - A Government-Led AI-Assisted Chronic Eye Disease Screening Initiative

India bears a disproportionate share of the global burden of visual impairment, with an estimated 8 million blind individuals and over 60 million peop...

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India
2019
Fetosense: AI-assisted fetal monitoring for early risk detection in low-resource maternal healthcare settings

Fetosense: AI-assisted fetal monitoring for early risk detection in low-resource maternal healthcare settings

In many rural and resource-constrained healthcare systems, access to specialized fetal monitoring and expert cardiotocography (CTG) interpretation is ...

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India
2019
AI-Native, Hybrid and EdgeAI, Ambient Clinical Intelligence and Personal Health Assistants for Scaling Equitable, Standards-Based Healthcare Delivery in India

AI-Native, Hybrid and EdgeAI, Ambient Clinical Intelligence and Personal Health Assistants for Scaling Equitable, Standards-Based Healthcare Delivery in India

The primary challenge in scaling quality healthcare across India is the "Information Bottleneck" and "Documentation Burden" that creates a disconnect ...

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India
2012
AI-powered Retinal Abnormality Screening Tool

AI-powered Retinal Abnormality Screening Tool

Despite significant advances in retinal imaging and treatment, avoidable blindness remains a growing public health challenge in India and other low- a...

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India
2016
AI-Powered Digital Therapy Platform for Children with Brain based Visual Impairment (CVI)

AI-Powered Digital Therapy Platform for Children with Brain based Visual Impairment (CVI)

Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) affects 36 million children globally and is the leading cause of childhood visual impairment. Unlike eye conditions, ...

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2021