Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award: From AI Diagnostics to Drought-Resilient Farming, Five Women from Africa are Transforming Health and Food Systems
Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneur Award for Africa AFRICA – ( AfricaNewswire.net ) -- The Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award , powered by the Impact Hub Network , honours fifteen women from Latin America, Africa, and Asia addressing critical challenges in global healthcare and food security. Five women from Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Morocco make up the 2026 Africa cohort. Their ventures span AI-powered cardiac diagnostics, digital healthcare, food processing and water-efficient agriculture, demonstrating the potential of women-led innovation to address challenges facing underserved communities. What the African winners are solving Dr. Alice Muhuhu of Aurora Health Systems in Kenya has built AI-powered, offline-capable ECG devices that detect more than 50 cardiac conditions in low-resource clinics, bringing accurate diagnosis to patients who would otherwise have no access to it. In Ethiopia, Beamlak Alemayehu’s Med...