Tagged: Artificial intelligence

  • July 26, 2023

    Machine learning can help prevent interruption of HIV treatment

    Written by
    Navindra Persaud, Technical Director, Strategic Information, Global Health and Population, FHI 360
    Matthew-David Ogbechie, Director, Strategic Information, Informatics and Innovative Solutions, EpiC Nigeria, FHI 360

    To help reach the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets by 2025, the public health community must ensure that people living with HIV have access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Access to this lifesaving medication is one issue; staying on it is another, because continuing ART is not always possible due to a variety of circumstances. In a project FHI 360 recently concluded in Nigeria, we demonstrated how machine learning can complement the efforts of health care workers to help people stay on ART. 

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  • March 23, 2023

    To detect, treat and prevent tuberculosis, we need to replicate this flexible strategy

    Written by
    Victoria Lebrun, International Research Fellow, USAID Support to End TB Project, FHI 360

    Tuberculosis (TB) is once again the world’s most deadly infectious disease, silently retaking the top spot from COVID-19 sometime in mid-2022. TB sickens more than 10 million people each year and kills about 1.6 million, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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