Jacaranda Health
AI for Global Development Accelerator
Grant Amount
$500000
Date Awarded
December 1, 2024
Funding Source
pooled
Summary
Jacaranda Health deploys affordable and scalable solutions through government hospitals to improve the quality of maternal care and newborn outcomes in Kenya. Through two-way SMS exchange, their AI-enabled digital health service called PROMPTs empowers women to seek care at the right time and place, giving them greater agency in the health system. They will be enhancing their PROMPTS platform with a Swahili-speaking voice Q&A functionality, leveraging OpenAI tools to bridge gaps in maternal care for low-literacy and sight-impaired mothers in Kenya, through accurate speech-to-text, fluent text-to-speech, and integrated AI responses.