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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 argument in African clinical AI is not about slowing deployment — it is about writing the compute transition into procurement documents before the current generation of X-ray machines needs replacing.