axoblade/afya-scan

AfyaScan; An AI-powered health tool for Community Health Volunteers in rural East Africa. Combines Gemini multimodal AI, Vision API, and Firebase to diagnose malaria from RDT strips, detect malnutrition via computer vision, and trigger real-time outbreak alerts. Built to close the 24-hour critical care gap for children with malaria and pneumonia. # AfyaScan: AI-Powered Community Health Tool **AfyaScan placed in the top 10 at the hackathon and is officially live.** AfyaScan is an AI-powered health tool designed specifically for Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in rural East Africa. It aims to close the diagnostic gap for treatable diseases by providing advanced tools that work within the critical 24-hour window. ## 🌍 The Mission This project isn't about building a profitable startup. It was about answering one urgent question: **How can we help a Community Health Volunteer in rural East Africa diagnose a child with malaria, pneumonia, or any general illness within the critical 24-hour window?** AfyaScan is 100% free for anyone in the developing world to use. Our goal is to close the diagnostic gap for the 1.5 million children who die from preventable and treatable diseases each year. ## ✨ What AfyaScan Does - **📱 Mobile-First & Offline-Ready**: Designed for the realities of rural clinics with intermittent connectivity through Firestore persistence. - **🦟 Instant Malaria RDT Analysis**: Uses Google Gemini AI to interpret rapid diagnostic test (RDT) strips via a phone camera, eliminating human interpretation errors. - **📏 AI-Assisted Malnutrition Detection**: Estimates Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) and nutritional status through photo analysis to help identify at-risk children faster and more hygienically. - **🧠 Symptom Triage for Pneumonia**: Guides volunteers through WHO-based protocols (IMCI) to transcribe, translate, and triage urgency levels. - **🚨 Real-Time Outbreak Alerts**: Automatically flags case clusters based on geographic and temporal trends to enable faster responses from health officials. ## 🛠 Tech Stack Built on **Google Cloud** for scale and reliability: - **AI**: Gemini Pro & Pro Vision (Multimodal analysis, translation, and triage) - **Database**: Firebase Firestore (with offline persistence) - **Auth**: Firebase Authentication - **Frontend**: React 18, TypeScript, Tailwind CS …