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Many mothers who need support the most are the ones least able to access it. By advancing voice and language technology this cohort brings us closer to reaching those less literate more vulnerable women with the care they deserve.
Jacaranda Health's flagship program PROMPTS delivers stage-based pregnancy and postpartum health information screens for danger signs and answers mothers' questions through SMS. At the core of PROMPTS is UlizaMama a localized maternal-health AI assistant built by their 100% Kenyan technology team and led by Jay Patel which now offers the options of voice on a toll-free line. Trained on a proprietary corpus of over a million real-world maternal and newborn health Q&A pairs UlizaMama responds to questions in a mixture of Swahili English and Sheng (slang). The system supports Swahili Hausa Twi and local code-mixed languages and handles about 80% of 12000 daily questions. As Jacaranda moves towards nationwide expansion of PROMPTS in Ghana where literacy rates are lower and many mothers rely on spoken communication they are piloting voice capabilities to reach more vulnerable users with fast understandable answers. Through the Compute Accelerator Ready Track Jacaranda Health will optimize its Twi models using dedicated GPU and cloud credits from AWS and receive mentorship on data strategy distributed training and scaling. They are looking forward to partnering with technical experts to improve the quality of their LLM and voice AI models across multiple African languages while significantly reducing training and inference cost. With a live MLOps pipeline a safety layer using LLM-as-judge and growing regional demand Jacaranda Health is turning access to compute into real health impact for mothers across Africa
