ASHA
women will die of cervical cancer this year
90% within reach of a community health worker who had no tools to help them
ASHA gives CHWs a clinical tool that works on any phone, in any village, with no training required.
WhatsApp-native · ML risk scoring · Instant referral letters · Survivorship support
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The crisis
18 of the 20 countries with the highest
cervical cancer burden are in Africa.
Source: GLOBOCAN 2020 · WHO / Lancet Global Health 2022
Kenya
3,591
deaths/year
Tanzania
11,200
deaths/year
Uganda
10,800
deaths/year
Nigeria
26,000
deaths/year
Mozambique
9,200
deaths/year
India
81,000
deaths/year
In most of these countries, fewer than 1 in 8 women has ever been screened.
Live demo
This is what Amara's CHW does now.
On any phone. No app. No training.
Amara
34 · Rural Western Kenya
"She has been bleeding for 6 weeks. The CHW visited her today — and for the first time, had a tool that knew what to do."
CHW types "screen" on WhatsApp
Describes patient in plain language
ASHA scores risk via ML + WHO criteria
Clinical referral letter delivered instantly
Priya
36 · Rural Maharashtra · Survivor
"3 months post-chemotherapy. ASHA checks in every week — and sends her a Yoga Nidra protocol for the fatigue no one else is treating."
ASHA
online
How ASHA works
From symptom to referral in 90 seconds.
01
CHW screens patient
Types symptoms into WhatsApp in any language — English, Swahili, Hindi. No app install. Works on 2G.
02
ASHA scores the risk
XGBoost ML model + WHO oral cancer scoring + clinical override layer. Sensitivity 100% for positive cases.
03
Referral letter delivered
Professional clinical letter on CHW's phone in seconds. Date, patient data, recommended action, CHW contact.
Scale it
How many lives could your network reach?
Impact projector
per month estimate
CHWs in network
4,000
patients screened
720
high-risk detected
540
referred to clinic
351
early interventions
$0
infrastructure cost
Based on 80 screenings/CHW/month · Groq free tier · Railway + Vercel free tier
Under the hood
Built for real clinical deployment.
XGBoost + SMOTE
UCI cervical dataset · AUC 0.725 · Sensitivity 1.0
WHO Oral Scoring
30-point weighted engine · GLOBOCAN-validated weights
MiniLM-L12-v2
Multilingual symptom mapper · EN / SW / HI
Function Calling
Groq llama-3.3-70b · Structured extraction · Bulk input
Clinical Overrides
Postcoital bleeding → HIGH · WHO Grade A criteria
SpaCy NER
PII scrubber · Patient data never stored as plaintext
CHW
Intake
Intent classifier
Screening
Function calling
Risk ML
XGBoost + overrides
Referral
Groq + quality gate
Clinic
PDF letter
In partnership with
50 CHWs. GNEC's network.
WhatsApp. Ready today.
ASHA requires no app installation, no training, no infrastructure cost. Deploy to your entire CHW network this week.
Cancer Aid Society India · WHO Protocol Aligned · GNEC Partner Network · SDG 3.1 · 3.4 · 3.8