CAMU/CNSS's Multi-Tenant Biometric ABIS — the Republic of Congo Deduplicates Universal Health Insurance Enrolment

The Republic of Congo established the Caisse d'Assurance Maladie Universelle (CAMU) by law n°19-2023 of 27 May 2023 to guarantee every citizen access to healthcare. Because the national identification system had limited interoperability with the health sector, CAMU and the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) needed a shared, trustworthy way to identify enrollees and avoid duplicate records.
Vendor Innovatrics supplied a multi-tenant Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS), integrated by Akieni, a subsidiary of the YAO Corp group, combining fingerprint and facial recognition. CAMU operates its tenant on a private cloud and CNSS on on-premise servers, but both share the same deduplication engine, with centralized duplicate checks performed at enrolment and a unique identifier issued to each enrollee for verification at health facilities.
Biometric enrolment launched on 24 November 2023 in Brazzaville under the patronage of Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso. By March 2025, a pilot phase covering Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire and Oyo had biometrically enrolled approximately 110,000 insured people, against CAMU's longer-term target of 3.5 million enrollees.
Public reporting to date is descriptive — enrolment counts and rollout milestones — rather than an independent evaluation of fraud reduction, cost savings or improved access to care. The main technical source is a vendor case study, and no third-party audit of match accuracy or false-duplicate rates has been published.

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