SmartHIVCare: A Bilingual Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Chatbot for ART Education and Adherence Support in Low-Resource Settings
Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a major public health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, where linguistic diversity and limited digital health resources constrain patient education and antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Amharic, one of Africa’s most widely spoken languages, remains underrepres...