Aida...
Breaking language barriers in prevention
About AIDA
The Idea
AIDA: Assistant Intelligent au Dépistage des Allophones (Intelligent assistant for screening allophones) is a multilingual application that aims to help preventive healthcare professionals in offering, explaining and communicating the importance of HIV & Hepatitis testing to non-French speakers
The Barrier
Language barrier is a major obstacle against accessibility to healthcare services; the result of which affects immigrants' health around the globe. This effect is even more significant in preventive healthcare where professionals struggle to communicate the relevance and importance of screening tests for an at-risk yet symptoms-free immigrant
The Solution
Aida enables immigrants to better understand HIV & hepatitis. it utilizes the patient’s waiting time to gather information about risk factors & offer education about screening tests all in the immigrant’s mother tongue. A summary of the patient’s answers is translated & presented to the healthcare professionals to better communication
A solution inspired by immigrants
AIDA is created by our “Quality Of Life” research team. It is the product of 6 qualitative Studies conducted within the migrant population having language barriers, in order to assess their needs. We have so far designed, developed and tested an English version prototype of our web app.
The application will include as a first version 11 languages (English , Dari ,Pashto ,Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Morocco),Turkish ,Bengali ,Tamil ,Russian, Tigrinya & Ukrainian) , these are the most needed for the target population of migrants visiting the French office of immigration (OFII) for their routine medical evaluation
In 2019, the project (under the name ULYSSE at the time) won the "Healthcare" and the "Innovation" prizes during the Coopérathon competition in France. This national competition organized by the bank La BRED had 400 participants in 7 cities and 60 social impact projects.
(click on the picture for the link of the event)
900
Patients
10
Centers
9
Months
Testing & Evaluating
As a research unit dedicated to “Patient Reported Outcome” our validation of the proof of concept will follow a rigorous testing methodology. AIDA will be tested with 900 immigrants in 10 centers for 9 months. The acceptability and effectiveness of the application will be assessed according to the APIDE study protocol.
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