Kenya has approximately 100,000 Community Health Workers (CHWs — locally called Community Health Extension Workers, or CHEWs). They cover a population of 54 million. That's roughly one CHW per 540 people, but in rural areas the ratio reaches 3,000:1.
These workers are the first and often only medical contact for millions of Kenyans. They do triage. They decide who needs a hospital referral. They counsel on pregnancy, malnutrition, fever, diarrhoea. They work from memory and a printed protocol card.
afyanipoa (afya nzuri = good health in Swahili, "poa" = cool) is an AI clinical co-pilot for these workers.
The Research Basis
arXiv:2408.17216 — "Democratizing AI in Africa: Federated Learning for Low-Resource Edge Devices" (2024)
