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In the heart of Joe Slovo informal settlement in Cape Town, something quietly powerful happened.

At Marconi Beam Primary School, the Impilo Project hosted a community health day that brought together medical screenings, HIV testing, dental care, and women’s health services for residents who rarely see this level of care in one place.

But the moment that stood out was different: portable, AI-powered TB screening that finally made early detection possible in an informal settlement.

Developed by South African MedTech company AI Diagnostics, the palm-sized digital stethoscope — described by CEO Braden van Breda as “Shazam for TB” — listens to lung sounds and identifies tuberculosis with accuracy comparable to a radiologist reading an X-ray.

No bulky machines. No long waits.In just a few hours, community health workers screened 105 people.

Dr Dale Smith, CEO of the Impilo Project, has spent years working in some of Africa’s most underserved areas.

His take was blunt: “This thing is going to save millions of lives.”

For a country that still loses around 50,000 people to TB every year, this is more than a gadget. It’s a genuine shift toward catching the disease before it destroys families — right where people actually live.

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