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Empowering Health Communication in Fulfulde-Speaking Communities Through an Innovative Multilingual Educational Chabot

Jules Brice Tchatchueng Mbougua of Centre Pasteur du Cameroun in Cameroon will develop a chatbot to provide health information in the Fulfulde language, which is commonly spoken in West Africa, to increase equitable access to healthcare. To overcome language barriers as well as variable levels of literacy, the chatbot will interact with users by speech or text and with bidirectional translation between Fulfulde, French, and English. To enable this, they will compile an extensive Fulfulde dataset covering health-related expressions and terminology. They will develop health information content that is culturally relevant by co-creating it with the communities the tool is meant to serve, and it will be focused on primary healthcare. The chatbot will include a way for users to provide feedback to ensure it is delivering information most relevant to the evolving needs of Fulfulde-speaking communities.

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