{
  "id": 15207160,
  "title": "AI midwife seeks to fill gaps in Zimbabwe's maternal health care",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/ai-midwife-seeks-to-fill-gaps-in-zimbabwes-maternal-health-care",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-17T13:44:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "RFI English",
    "slug": "rfi-english",
    "url": "https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20261017-ai-midwife-seeks-to-fill-gaps-in-zimbabwe-s-maternal-health-care"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "With public health services stretched thin, women in Zimbabwe sometimes struggle to access reliable information about pregnancy and childbirth. A locally developed app aims to answer their questions and direct them to appropriate care, in an example of the potential of artificial intelligence to ease pressure on overloaded health systems.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}