ThumaDx is a high-impact, multi-modal healthcare platform designed to bridge the critical 24-hour survival window for children in rural Africa. By placing hospital-grade diagnostic intelligence in the hands of Community Health Volunteers (CHVs), it transforms a slow, paper-based system into a real-time, data-driven life-saving network.
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### Intelligent Frontline Diagnostics for Rural West Africa
*Triage. Detect. Alert. Before it's too late.*
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## The Problem
In rural West Africa, a child with acute **malaria** or **pneumonia** can die within **24 hours** of their first symptom. Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) — the only medical touchpoint for millions of people — rely on manual observation, paper forms, and slow reporting chains.
By the time data reaches a district supervisor, the window to intervene has often already closed.
**ThumaDx changes that.**
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## What ThumaDx Does
ThumaDx is a multi-modal clinical decision support platform that puts the diagnostic intelligence of a district hospital into the hands of a CHV in the field.
A CHV describes symptoms in plain language or local Pidgin. ThumaDx converts that into a structured triage assessment — in real time, at the point of care — and simultaneously updates a live outbreak map visible to district officials.
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CHV speaks or types symptoms
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▼
┌───────────────────────┐
│ ThumaDx Engine │ ← Gemini NLP + WHO clinical thresholds
│ Symptom Analysis │
└───────────┬───────────┘
│
┌──────┴──────┐
▼ ▼
┌─────────┐ ┌──────────────┐
│ MUAC │ │ Triage │ MONITOR / HIGH RISK /
│ Image │ │ Classification│ URGENT REFERRAL / CRITICAL
│ Vision │ └──────┬───────┘
│ API │ │
└────┬────┘ │
└──────┬───────┘
▼
┌───────────────────────┐
│ Firebase Firestore │ → GIS Dashboard → Outbreak Alerts
└───────────────────────┘
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## Core Capabilities
### 🩺 Precision Triage — Powered by Gemini
CHVs describe w …