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Impact Signals #117: WHO Africa Opens a 47-Country Health Data Hub, Nepal Confronts Meta and TikTok Over Takedown Latency, Arkansas Prices the Rural Health Wire at $149.3M The WHO Regional Office for Africa unveiled a Regional Health Data Hub in Addis Ababa on August 27, pooling maternal, disease, workforce and service-delivery data from all 47 member states into one interoperable layer with AI-enabled forecasting on top. Two days later in Kathmandu, Nepali officials sat down with Meta and TikTok and asked them to stop taking 24 to 48 hours to pull AI-generated flood footage and fraudulent QR codes, during a disaster that killed hundreds in a morning. Arkansas, meanwhile, named 50 rural health projects and routed $55.7 million of $149.3 million into telehealth and remote monitoring. Today's stories sit at different points in one chain: the data layer under a continent's ministries, the information layer that turned toxic inside 48 hours, the money layer that decides whether any of it reaches a rural county, and the detection layer a California city just buried in its canyons. --- Top Stories **1. WHO African Region Opens a Shared Health Data Hub for All 47 Member States, With AI Forecasting in the Analytics Tier** The World Health Organization's Regional Office for Africa unveiled the Regional Health Data Hub on August 27 in Addis Ababa, during the 76th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa, which ran August 24 to 28. The platform is shared across all 47 member st…