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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Three prisons in Mozambique’s capital Maputo are tackling tuberculosis (TB), the world’s second deadliest communicable disease after Covid.<\/b><\/p>\n

Overcrowded prisons are a hotbed of TB, which is caused by a bacteria often attacking the lungs.<\/p>\n

According to the World Health Organisation, 7.5 million people were diagnosed with the disease in 2022, the highest figure since it began monitoring in 1995.<\/p>\n

The three prisons in Maputo are taking part in a pilot project using Artificial Intelligence to detect the disease, a programme which has sparked hope that the disease can be eradicated.<\/p>\n

All inmates are being scanned in an effort to diagnose the disease early on in patients, key to saving lives and tackling the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n

The programme is being conducted by a local non-profit organisation supported by the Stop TB Partnership, a UN-backed entity.<\/p>\n

While a chronic cough is a hallmark of infection, people can also carry TB without showing symptoms. Prisons are a perfect breeding ground due to crammed cells and airborne transmission.<\/p>\n

Traditional spit, skin or blood tests for TB involves visits to a lab and the results can take up to three days. The quickest time for reliable results is 24 hours.<\/p>\n

The combination of AI and portable X-ray machines is faster and eliminates the need for visits to clinics and radiologists, who can be scarce in poor rural areas, says Stop TB’s deputy head Suvanand Sahu.<\/p>\n

Sahu says he hopes that the success of pilot programmes could help get funding to scale up the use of AI in diagnosing tuberculosis.<\/p>\n

“Only a few years ago, if I was to say in a meeting that we can bring X-rays to all communities and have them read by a artificial intelligence with no need for radiologists, they would have kicked me out of the room and told me to go write a sci-fi novel,” he says.<\/p>\n

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