What Makes a Health AI Actually Built for Africa?

This week, Microsoft launched Copilot Health. In January, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health and Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare. 2026 is the year Big Tech decided to be your AI doctor. From here, the gap was obvious: all three of those launches are US-only. Meanwhile, sub-Saharan Africa carries 24% of the world’s disease burden with only 3% of its health workers. The continent that needs health AI most can’t even access the ones making headlines.