Ugandan AI Health Pilot Records High Agreement With Community Workers, Now Enters the Harder Phase

An AI-assisted febrile illness surveillance system piloted across four Ugandan districts has recorded high agreement with the judgments of Village Health Teams, and is now moving into a second phase that will test something considerably harder: whether showing health workers the AI’s interpretation improves their decisions or simply displaces them. The workflow is built into Uganda’s electronic Community Health Information System and running in Mpigi, Moyo, Buikwe and Lira.