“Before we could have four deaths [of children] in a week or 15 days, but now we record maybe one death,” says Blessings Juma, head of the pediatric ward at Mangochi District Hospital in Malawi. The health worker attributes this change to IMPALA, a monitoring system with artificial intelligence designed to detect early deterioration in hospitalized patients and thus reduce child mortality in low-resource clinics.

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On December 10, 2024, a woman arrived at a health facility in Pariak, a town in the state of Jonglei in South Sudan, with diarrhea, vomiting and symptoms of dehydration. She had recently returned from an area affected by cholera. In one of the most vulnerable countries in the world, where millions of people lack regular access to clean water and health services, this could have been the beginning of a new emergency.

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