Collaboration supported by the Gates Foundation aims to address pressing public health concerns in East Africa
San Francisco, April 25, 2025 – Medic, a global non-profit championing digital health innovation, announced it is partnering with Audere, an AI diagnostic and treatment solutions provider. The organizations are developing an innovative solution aimed at strengthening disease surveillance for Ministries of Health in malaria-endemic, low-resource regions with support from the Gates Foundation.
The initiative will integrate Audere’s AI tool, HealthPulse AI, with the Community Health Toolkit (CHT)—a collection of open-source digital health technologies created by Medic and developed with a global community of actors. The integration will leverage AI to support frontline health workers in Kenya and Uganda to interpret malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests (mRDTs), reducing reporting errors, expediting treatment, and improving the detection and tracking of fever-related symptoms in children (known as ‘febrile illness surveillance’).
Despite decades of progress in reducing malaria transmission on the African continent, cases have continued to rise since 2020. In Kenya and Uganda, malaria—a primary cause of febrile illness—is a serious public health issue.
Medic has been working in Kenya and Uganda for more than a decade, supporting digitalization efforts that culminated in the national scale of Kenya’s electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS) in 2024 and ongoing scale-up in Uganda. Powered by the CHT, the Kenyan and Ugandan systems each guide 106,320 and 16,297 community health workers (CHWs), respectively, to deliver essential healthcare services and advance universal health coverage.
The integration will enable health workers using eCHIS to capture and validate images of malaria rapid diagnostic tests, with an aim to improve the detection, care, and health outcome of child illness.
“At Medic, our calling is to strengthen local autonomy and equitable access to innovative technology that advances health for all in the digital age,” said Dykki Settle, Interim CEO of Medic. “By partnering with the Gates Foundation, Audere, and Ministries of Health with bold agendas, we’re bringing Audere’s AI-powered diagnostics to the last meter, strengthening health workers with world-class tools as they provide care for their communities.”
“Audere’s mission is to provide accessible, cost-effective, and African-inspired AI capabilities for platform partners and governments,” said Dino Rech, CEO of Audere. “We are excited about the opportunity to advance this goal through collaboration with esteemed partners like Medic and the governments of Kenya and Uganda.”
For more information, visit www.medic.org and www.auderenow.org.
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Medic and the CHT
Medic is a global nonprofit that advances equitable care and strengthens global community health systems to achieve universal health coverage. Founded in 2010, Medic designs and delivers world-class, open-source software to support health workers as they deliver quality, timely, equitable care for everyone, everywhere. Medic is the technical steward of and core contributor to the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), an open-source and cost-effective digital public good specifically developed to improve last-mile health delivery.
Audere
Audere is a global digital health nonprofit developing HealthPulse™ solutions to advance health equity in underserved communities worldwide. We operate at the unique intersection of global health and high tech, creating advanced, accessible software that revolutionizes the detection and treatment of diseases — such as malaria, COVID-19, and HIV. Our diverse team of passionate, innovative minds combines smartphone technology, artificial intelligence, and the best of cloud-based services to deliver HealthPulse™ solutions worldwide. Development of our projects is funded by grants and support from the Gates Foundation, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, and other global health partners. Learn more at auderenow.org.