Scoping review of artificial intelligence via mobile technology and social media for health in Africa.

ABSTRACT: The combination of mobile technologies and social media with Artificial Intelligence (AI) opens new opportunities for multi-modal data generation, analysis, and inference for various health applications. To investigate how these tools are being used for health applications in Africa, we conduct a scoping review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) approach. We screen 469 articles and synthesize 116. We include 29 studies documenting the use of a broad range of advanced and straightforward machine-learning techniques to study infectious and chronic diseases such as COVID-19 (4 studies, 13.8%), malaria (5, 17.2%), and cervical cancer (2, 6.9%). Countries with high internet and mobile phone penetration have higher representation. Based on i

SUBMITTER: Baichoo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12722415 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature