LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – The Gates Foundation and OpenAI are setting up a $50 million partnership to help African countries use artificial intelligence to improve their health systems.<\/p>\n
The partnership, called Horizon1000, plans to work with African leaders to work out how best to use the technology, starting with Rwanda.<\/p>\n
Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n “In poorer countries with enormous health worker shortages and lack of health systems infrastructure, AI can be a gamechanger in expanding access to quality care,” said Gates in a blog post announcing the launch. He has repeatedly described AI as one of the most transformative technologies ever developed.<\/p>\n The foundation has already set up a number of AI initiatives, while Rwanda last year established an AI health hub in Kigali.<\/p>\n Horizon1000 aims to reach 1,000 primary health clinics and surrounding communities across several countries by 2028, Gates said.<\/p>\n The launch comes as many lower-income countries struggle with major cuts to international aid budgets – reductions Gates said in December<\/a> had contributed to the first rise in preventable child deaths this century.<\/p>\n AI could be particularly valuable in countries with severe shortages of trained health workers, Gates said. He noted estimates suggesting sub-Saharan Africa is short of around six million healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n Reporting by Jennifer Rigby. Editing by Mark Potter<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n Jen is the Global Health Correspondent at Reuters, covering everything from pandemics to the rise of obesity worldwide. Since joining the news agency in 2022, her award-winning work includes coverage of gender-affirming care for adolescents in the UK and a global investigation with colleagues into how contaminated cough syrup killed hundreds of children in Africa and Asia. She previously worked at the Telegraph newspaper and Channel 4 News in the UK, and spent time as a freelancer in Myanmar and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – The Gates Foundation and OpenAI are setting up a $50 million partnership to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[82772,291,33335,82519,82793,289,290,82499,36586,82500,82795,83800,87219,82529,88447,83806,109232,18,55396,32356,45748,87209,87211,19,17,82797,84435,3503,93734,82565,82524,82508,83810,83002,102513,99594,139285,82512,82801,753,82,30150,96595,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-295494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-afr","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-aid","11":"tag-amers","12":"tag-arti","13":"tag-artificial-intelligence","14":"tag-artificialintelligence","15":"tag-bact","16":"tag-biz","17":"tag-cmpny","18":"tag-cprod","19":"tag-cwp","20":"tag-destoushem","21":"tag-destoustcm","22":"tag-destozabsm","23":"tag-destozatpm","24":"tag-eafr","25":"tag-eire","26":"tag-emea","27":"tag-fin","28":"tag-gen","29":"tag-hea","30":"tag-heca","31":"tag-ie","32":"tag-ireland","33":"tag-itec","34":"tag-itse","35":"tag-job","36":"tag-mlaisv","37":"tag-mtpix","38":"tag-namer","39":"tag-pol","40":"tag-privt","41":"tag-pxp","42":"tag-rhpiemployee-health","43":"tag-rulescompany-openai","44":"tag-rw","45":"tag-sci","46":"tag-swit","47":"tag-tech","48":"tag-technology","49":"tag-tmt","50":"tag-topicpharma-healthcare-healthcare-innovation","51":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115932156552813602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}