AI-Powered Infectious Disease Pre-Diagnosis System in Cape Verde
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Overview
In Cape Verde, language has long been a barrier to healthcare access. For many residents, navigating health services in a language other than their own, Cape Verdean Creole means delayed diagnoses, miscommunication, and preventable harm.
By developing an AI-enabled infectious disease pre-diagnosis system built around Cape Verdean language interaction, it brings early detection within reach of communities that existing digital health tools have largely bypassed. At its core is natural language processing and speech recognition infrastructure purpose-built for the local linguistic context.
The result is a system that lets users engage with health services in their own language, lowering the threshold for early help-seeking and strengthening the pipeline between communities and care.