Aafiya Med
Building South Africa's
AI Health
Ecosystem
Aafiya Med (Pty) Ltd is a health-technology company developing AI-powered platforms for patients, clinicians, and the community.
Aafiya Med (Pty) Ltd is a health-technology company developing AI-powered platforms for patients, clinicians, and the community.
Each product addresses a distinct layer of South Africa's healthcare value chain — together forming a vertically integrated AI health ecosystem that spans primary care, clinical support, diagnostics, family wellbeing, and managed care administration.
South Africa's first AI primary care platform with mandatory HPCSA clinician sign-off. Patients access clinically validated consultations via PWA, in all 11 official languages.
An Android application giving HPCSA-licensed clinicians AI-assisted differential diagnosis support. Powered by Aafiya AI, it combines text queries, voice intake, real-time consultation listening, and multimodal image analysis.
A full-scale, AI-powered, multi-tenant Laboratory Information System spanning 26 integrated modules across 13 disciplines — from specimen accessioning to signed-out, FHIR-compliant diagnostic reports. Built for pathologists, lab technicians, and hospital systems, and integrated with Aafiya's clinical platforms for closed-loop diagnostics.
South Africa's free platform helping families of neurodivergent children find therapy, navigate SASSA grants, understand school rights, and connect with community — in all 11 official languages, with WhatsApp access requiring no data.
A unified administration platform for medical schemes, insurers, and managed care organisations. Consolidates claims processing, clinical workflows, and member management across 23 independently deployable microservices — built for South African data residency and regulatory compliance from day one.
From symptom entry to lab result — and from diagnosis to managed care administration — every touchpoint in the care continuum is connected, enabling closed-loop diagnostics and clinician-supervised AI care at scale.
Aafiya Med (Pty) Ltd is a 100% black-owned, 67% black-woman-owned enterprise — a Level One B-BBEE contributor carrying 135% procurement recognition. Built to serve the communities most affected by South Africa's healthcare crisis.
Aafiya Med is built by a founding team combining clinical depth and deep engineering expertise, supported by advisors with specialised knowledge in South African healthcare, regulatory compliance, and AI safety.
Medical doctor with expertise in AI-assisted clinical decision support and South African healthcare system architecture. Focused on clinician-supervised AI models, HPCSA compliance frameworks, and NHI interoperability standards.
Leads all technical architecture across Aafiya's product suite — from AI-powered clinical decision support to managed care administration and pathology integration. Focused on POPIA-compliant data engineering, FHIR interoperability, and scalable cloud architecture.
All clinical decisions on the Aafiya platform are reviewed and approved by HPCSA-registered medical practitioners. AI serves as a clinical decision support tool — never as a replacement for clinician judgment.
Our technical architecture is designed for the realities of South African healthcare: intermittent connectivity, diverse devices, and the need for seamless data exchange with NHI systems.
Aafiya Med was founded on a single conviction: that South Africa's healthcare crisis is not a resource problem — it is a distribution and access problem that AI can help solve.
We build at the intersection of clinical rigour and emerging technology — always with clinicians in the loop, always with the underserved South Africans in mind. Our five platforms address patient access, clinician decision support, laboratory integration, family support for neurodivergent children, and managed care administration for medical schemes and insurers.
For partnerships, investor relations, or press enquiries: hello@aafiya.app
"A South Africa where every person, regardless of income or geography, can access clinician-reviewed clinical care within hours — through any phone, in their own language, at no cost to them."
South Africa has lost 12,745 doctors and 58,897 nurses from the public sector since 2013. 80% of doctors serve only 15% of the population. AI exists to close this gap — if built responsibly, with clinicians in the loop.
The questions we hear most from medical aids, pharmacy groups, clinicians, and regulators.
The HPCSA-registered clinician who reviews and signs off on every consultation holds clinical liability — not the AI, and not Aafiya Med as the platform provider. AI serves as a clinical decision support tool under clinician supervision. This mirrors the liability framework for other decision-support technologies (e.g., radiology AI, lab analysers). Clinicians retain full authority to accept, modify, or reject AI recommendations.
All patient data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Patients provide explicit consent before any data is collected. Data is pseudonymised where possible, and access is restricted to authorised clinical users only. We maintain a POPIA-compliant data processing register, conduct regular privacy impact assessments, and have appointed a designated Information Officer. Patients can request data deletion at any time via hello@aafiya.app.
Clinician judgment always takes precedence. Every AI recommendation can be accepted, modified, or rejected by the reviewing doctor. All overrides are logged (with reason codes) and feed back into model training to improve future accuracy. In early pilots, we expect ~10-15% override rates as the AI learns South African clinical patterns — this is by design. The system is built to defer to clinical expertise, not replace it.
Not yet. We are currently in the clinical validation phase, with a SAHPRA Class IIb medical device submission planned for Q3 2026. The platform is operational for pilot testing with consenting patients under clinician supervision. Full commercial deployment will follow SAHPRA approval, expected in late 2026 or early 2027.
We use FHIR R4 for all data exchange, which is compatible with most modern claims and authorisation systems. We can integrate via HL7 FHIR APIs or through existing switch providers (e.g., Healthbridge, Medigram). For medical aids, we offer eligibility checking, real-time authorisation requests, and claims submission — all via standardised FHIR messaging. We're open to partnership discussions with any scheme interested in expanding primary care access for their members.
Yes, partially. The PWA will store the consultation offline and submit resubmit, once network connectivity is restored. The SecondOpinion clinician app has an on-device AI fallback for clinical queries when offline. Full consultation workflows require connectivity for clinician review and e-prescription submission, but intake and triage can happen offline and sync later.
We are building strategic partnerships across medical aid schemes, pharmacy groups, laboratory networks, and the NHI implementation ecosystem.
care.aafiya.app — Patient Platform
secondopinion.aafiya.app — Clinician App
lab.aafiya.app — Laboratory Management
neuroconnect.space — Family Support
managedcare.aafiya.app — Managed Care Admin
For press enquiries or partnership announcements, contact hello@aafiya.app
We're looking for mission-driven engineers, clinicians, and operators who want to solve South Africa's healthcare access crisis. Early team, high impact, equity upside.
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