About

Africa shouldn't be where access to good medicine stops. It's where ours begins.

Health Hub was founded on a single observation: African healthcare isn't broken because medicine is hard. It's broken because the connective tissue between patient, doctor, pharmacy, lab, and specialist is missing. We are building that connective tissue: clinical-grade, multilingual, and designed for the device you already have.

Vision

Every person in Africa has access to a qualified doctor, the right diagnosis, and the right treatment, regardless of location, income, or complexity of condition.

Mission

To connect African patients to care through an intelligent digital health companion, and when their condition requires it, to bring them safely to world-class specialist care in India.

Operating principles

Six rules we don't bend.

They sit at the top of our engineering specification. They are the first thing every new team member reads.

01Every encounter starts structured.

No patient bypasses the Healthcare Assistant. Structure isn't an obstacle to good medicine; it's a precondition for it at scale.

02Local first, India only when needed.

We are not a medical-tourism funnel. The India pathway is a clinical fallback for cases that genuinely cannot be handled locally, not the default.

03Build for any phone, any signal.

USSD is not a Phase 3 nice-to-have. 36% of Sub-Saharan Africa has no smartphone. They deserve the same care everyone else does, from the same platform.

04Clinical safety is never an LLM judgement call.

Triage scoring, red-flag detection, and the allergy gate are deterministic. The language model writes summaries and conducts conversation. It does not decide whether you are safe.

05Audit-grade by default.

Every clinical record access is logged immutably. Every doctor decision is locked, never edited. Every override has a typed reason and a timestamp. We design as if we will be audited tomorrow, because eventually we will.

06Region-respecting from day one.

African patient data does not cross to India without explicit consent, and the architecture enforces this. Not policy, not training. Code is law where it matters most.

Why now

Three forces have converged. The window is open.

Africa has crossed the threshold where a digital health platform can actually reach the majority, and India has built the world's most cost-effective specialist medical capacity. Health Hub sits at the intersection.

Smartphone & connectivity

64% smartphone penetration in Sub-Saharan Africa. 81% 3G coverage. Affordable handsets under $100. The remaining 36% are reachable via USSD and SMS, and we don't abandon them.

Clinical AI is finally credible

LLM-powered conversational intake is good enough to capture structured history reliably. But it is not yet, and may never be, good enough for unsupervised diagnosis. The right architecture is human-led, AI-assisted.

Indian medical capacity is underutilised

India has world-class hospital capacity at one-tenth Western pricing. African patients already travel, but through unstructured agency channels. A clinical-grade platform replaces a fragmented agent market.

Roadmap

Four phases. Thirty months.

We publish our roadmap so partners, investors, and regulators can plan against it. We update it quarterly.

M0 to M6
Phase 1 · Healthcare Assistant + core clinical

Patient onboarding, Healthcare Assistant across all channels, doctor portal, teleconsult engine, prescriptions, diagnostics. Live patients by month 6.

M7 to M14
Phase 2 · Operations & coordinator

Partner portal, pharmacy fulfilment, insurance integration, hospital hubs (KE & IN), coordinator portal with India referral SLA.

M15 to M22
Phase 3 · Africa expansion & travel

Swahili, French, Amharic. M-Pesa & MoMo full integration. Amadeus flights and hotels. Community modules. Africa hospital hub coverage.

M22 to M30
Phase 4 · Intelligence & compliance

AI triage v2 fine-tuned on outcomes. Predictive alerts. Plain-language report summaries. Education content. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audits.

3+1
Markets at launch
Kenya · Uganda · Ethiopia + India
4
Languages at launch
EN · SW · FR · AM
5
Access channels
Web · mobile · USSD · WhatsApp · voice
30 mo
Full roadmap
Phase 1 live at M6
Join us

There is room for clinicians, engineers, partners, and investors who want to build the connective tissue of African healthcare.

If our principles are your principles, we'd like to hear from you.