Over the recent years, chatbots  (automated chat services) have gained popularity in the digital health domain as a way of interacting with patients and the broader population.

Aidsfonds & UNAIDS Indonesia both developed a similar technological solution for a similar problem: using automated chat in the fight against HIV & STIs. Next to the similarities, Advies.chat (Aidsfonds) and Ask Marlo (UNAIDS) face very different challenges in terms of data privacy, artificial intelligence and voice input. Human behaviour and cultural differences can make coming to universal solutions a challenge.

During the AI for Good Global Summit Aidsfonds and UNAIDS Indonesia will compare notes to try and find a solution to a global problem. How do we learn if we do not have the luxury of making mistakes? Come and join the demo and the discussion:

• 28th of May - 13.15  @Demo Stage – Demo on Advies.chat and ASK Marlo
• 29th of May –  11.00  @AI Health & Wellbeing Breakthrough – Chat on Chats – STI & HIV & Bots

Aidsfonds strongly believes that leveraging innovation is not optional, that it is essential to achieve the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an inclusive Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the UNAIDS Fast Track targets (90-90-90). An increased connected world provides the opportunity to achieve these goals. More then 95 percent of the global population live in an area that is covered by a mobile-cellular network, and nearly 41 percent of people in developing countries have a mobile broadband subscription. Aidsfonds invests in digital health solutions through the framework of the Stepped Care Model for Sexual Health - “Having the right service in the right place, at the right time delivered by the right person.”  This model facilitates the coordination of qualitative digital and offline solutions for Sexual Health.