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One platform.
Focused programs.

The reading pathway is permanent infrastructure. A program points it at one clinical problem — with its own partners, funders, protocols, and dataset — the way a hospital hosts a TB clinic without becoming one.

  1. Film photographed

    at the clinic, over WhatsApp

  2. Triage and draft

    software routes and pre-drafts; it never signs

  3. A radiologist signs

    name and licence on every report

  4. Report delivered

    in Dari or Pashto, with a verification code

Active Flagship program

Tuberculosis case-finding

Running — study design in progress

Afghanistan carries one of its region’s heaviest TB burdens, and chest X-ray is the sharpest screening tool it has — when someone reads the film. The TB program pairs WHO-recommended CAD triage with human radiologists, and carries the platform’s deepest research agenda. This is the page to send a TB-ecosystem partner.

The full program — architecture, limits, study

Why this program

Of every three people who fall ill with TB in a year, one is never counted.

50,000

about — notified to the TB programme in a year

25,000

about — fall ill and are never counted

And more than ten thousand die each year.12

Status
Running; study design in progress
Reading tiers
CAD triage · radiologist · surge
Open to
Adjudication, co-authorship, funding

In development Platform program

Radiological surveillance

Reads stored — the weekly feed is being built

The national outbreak system counts weekly from one facility in seven and has no channel from private clinics. Every signed read on the platform is timestamped and placed; counted weekly by province and finding, the reads become a disease signal the national system does not have. This is the page to send a surveillance programme, an implementing entity, or a health-security funder.

The program — what a read carries, the feed, its limits

Why this program

One quarter, as three systems see it.

Signed reads on the platform

as each read is signed — continuous

Sentinel outbreak count

once a week

TB register report

once a quarter, after it ends

The same thirteen weeks. Band length is cadence, not volume.3

Status
Reads stored; weekly feed being built
Signal
Pneumonia weekly · TB pattern monthly
Open to
Surveillance programmes, implementing entities, funders

Programs launch when their partners are in the room

The reading gap is not a TB problem — it swallows fractures, pneumonias, and children’s films just the same. These are the candidate areas we intend to grow into; each launches when its clinical partners, funders, and protocols exist.

Pediatric imaging
Children are exactly where screening algorithms are not validated — human reading matters most here.
Candidate
Fracture & trauma X-ray
The everyday films — the fall, the accident, the set-it-tonight decision — where turnaround is the whole value.
Candidate
Maternal & obstetric imaging
A further-out candidate, and a different modality conversation — listed because the need is real.
Candidate

If one of these is your field, the fastest way to make it real is to start the conversation.

References

  1. 1 World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean — Afghanistan tuberculosis programme. WHO estimated roughly 73,000 people fell ill with TB in Afghanistan in 2020; WHO EMRO reporting puts annual TB deaths above ten thousand. www.emro.who.int/afg/programmes/stop-tuberculosis.html
  2. 2 Notified cases: KabulNow (24 March 2026), reporting WHO figures for World TB Day — more than 50,000 TB cases recorded in Afghanistan in 2024. Estimated burden on the order of 75,000 a year: World Health Organization, Global Tuberculosis Report, Afghanistan country profile. kabulnow.com/2026/03/who-calls-for-action-as-tuberculosis-remains-a-major-threat-in-afghanistan/
  3. 3 Cadences: Ahmadi et al. (2024), “Strengthening event-based surveillance (EBS): a case study from Afghanistan” — weekly indicator-based reporting from 519 sentinel sites of 3,750 facilities, with no reporting mechanism for private facilities; quarterly cohort reporting is the WHO standard for national TB programmes (DHIS2 TB notifications design). pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11059675/