NAIROBI, Kenya — Nonprofits are working smarter at delivering health care to refugees in Africa as artificial intelligence-powered telemedicine makes humanitarian inroads on the continent.
The technology is able to overcome a slew of barriers to connect refugees in camps to specialist doctors based within and outside Africa.
Studies show that language, distance, discrimination, lack of transportation, and not having documentation to allow for unrestricted movement are among the challenges denying refugees access to health care services.