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Farai Shawn Matiashe

AI midwife seeks to fill gaps in Zimbabwe's maternal health care

A pregnant woman in Zimbabwe looks at her phone to get pregnancy-related information from a WhatsApp chatbot known as DawaMom.
A pregnant woman in Zimbabwe looks at her phone to get pregnancy-related information from a WhatsApp chatbot known as DawaMom. © Farai Shawn Matiashe

Mutare, Zimbabwe – With public health services stretched thin, women in Zimbabwe sometimes struggle to access reliable information about pregnancy and childbirth. A locally developed app aims to answer their questions and direct them to appropriate care, in an example of the potential of artificial intelligence to ease pressure on overloaded health systems.

When Harare resident Samantha Murungweni found out she was pregnant for the first time earlier this year, she felt scared.

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