Healthcare AI

Africa's primary healthcare grapples with a 6 million worker shortage and 27% aid cuts, reversing child health gains. Enter Horizon1000: Gates Foundation and OpenAI's $50M push to equip 1,000 clinics with AI for faster triage, automated records, and multilingual guidance, piloting in Rwanda. Tools cut visit times in half, aiding rural mothers and immunization drives. Despite hurdles like spotty internet and bias risks, the phased rollout emphasizes local training for sustainability. Drawing on WHO stats, this explores how AI plugs operational gaps, potentially handling 20-30% of routine tasks to bolster resilient systems amid global funding squeezes.