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AI improves diagnosis, treatment of cervical cancer

MALAWI

Cervical cancer is the second deadliest cancer in low- and middle-income countries. In Malawi in east Africa, where MSF operates, more than 4 000 women fall sick with cervical cancer every year with close to 3 000 deaths in 2020. The reasons for such a high mortality rate from this disease which, in high-income countries, is preventable and generally less deadly include limited access to prevention and screening. Clara Nordon, the director of the MSF Foundation, visited Malawi with the MSF teams and tells us about the project led by the foundation, code name: AI4CC

Q. Clara, can you tell us about this emerging project?

It stands for Artificial Intelligence for Cervical Cancer. The project started three years

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