Inmates diagnosed with TB gather at an isolated cell in the maximum security prison of Maputo. — AFP
A PROGRAMME using artificial intelligence to test inmates in a high security Mozambican jail for tuberculosis has spawned hope that the new technology can help eradicate the disease.
Teeming prisons are a hotbed of TB, the world’s second deadliest communicable disease after Covid-19, according to the World Health Organisation. Mozambique, a country of 32 million people, recorded about 120,000 infections last year.
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