Healthcare Access

The following sources inform the “Healthcare access” section of Chapter 19. They cover AI-assisted disease screening in low-resource settings (cervical cancer, tuberculosis, digital microscopy) and the projected global shortage of healthcare professionals by 2030, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.

1. World Bank — Tipping the Scales: AI’s Dual Impact on Developing Nations
2. Karolinska Institutet — AI Can Improve Cervical Cancer Screening in Low-Resource Settings
3. BMJ / NIH — AI-Supported Digital Microscopy Diagnostics in Primary Health Care
4. Global Voices — Researchers in Africa Are Using AI to Fill the Global Health Care Gap
5. NPR — AI Steps In to Detect the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease (Tuberculosis)
6. Project HOPE — The Global Health Care Worker Shortage: 9 Numbers to Note
7. WHO Africa / AFRO — Countries, Experts Agree on 10-Year Africa Health Workforce Agenda