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Reading a Chest X-ray in Turkana: Where the AI Lives

The WHO-approved chest X-ray AI models running on tablets in Turkana are working. What is not yet settled is where the stack underneath them actually lives: training pipelines, reference datasets, and GPU clusters that remain, for now, in foreign clouds. The sovereignty question in African clinical AI gets decided in procurement documents, on the clock that replaces the current generation of X-ray machines.