VillageReach, an international non-profit organization rooted in Mozambique since 2000 and focused on improving access to quality healthcare for hard-to-reach communities, and Qure.ai, a global AI company innovating solutions in healthcare for early detection and care management, have partnered with Mozambique’s Ministry of Health to strengthen national pandemic preparedness.
Through a Gates Foundation grant focused on strengthening pandemic preparedness and resilient health systems, VillageReach will work with Mozambique’s Ministry of Health to enhance national early warning and emergency response mechanisms. Central to this initiative is the integration of Qure.ai’s Aira, an AI-powered healthcare co-pilot that assists health systems to digitize and interpret health information from primary health centers (PHCs) and communities for faster emergency response planning.
Embedded within health information sources like AlôVida, Aira will help health authorities and emergency coordination mechanisms, including Mozambique’s Public Health Emergency Operations Center (PHEOC), to better detect emerging community concerns, understand patterns of misinformation and respond to potential public health risks earlier.
Through platforms like AlôVida and Mozambique Health Information System for Monitoring and Evaluation (SIS-MA), the PHEOC receives thousands of health queries from citizens across the country. These queries range from new symptom reporting and care-seeking questions to new disease concerns and other public health enquiries, including vaccine information. Historically, AlôVida has served primarily as a hotline, connecting communities to trusted health information and services.
“By integrating AI into trusted platforms like AlôVida, we are creating a more responsive system that listens to people in real time and translates their concerns into meaningful insights for decision-makers,” saidRotafina Donco, Mozambique Country Director, VillageReach. “This partnership represents an important step toward strengthening community-centered health, ensuring that even the most remote voices help shape faster, more effective public health responses.”
By embedding AI directly into existing health platforms, these interactions can now also contribute to continuous population-level health monitoring. Aira will analyse the interactions at scale to identify emerging symptom patterns, detect unusual health trends and issue early warning signals that may otherwise remain fragmented across individual reports. This initiative will be a game-changer in identifying geographic clustering of symptoms, monitoring potential infectious disease risks, and prioritizing timely investigation and response efforts.
“Our experience working with public health systems globally has shown that meaningful AI must adapt to how health systems already function,” said Divya Gupta, Chief Business Officer for Global Health, Qure.ai. “We have partnered with health programs across diverse settings, including Mozambique, to help move from reactive response toward proactive preparedness. With Aira embedded within Mozambique’s healthcare system, this collaboration supports earlier understanding of risks and more informed public health decision making.”
Mozambique continues to face recurrent public health emergencies, including cyclones and cholera outbreaks, which place significant strain on health systems, particularly in rural and hard-to-reach regions. These recurring emergencies have disrupted healthcare services and highlighted the challenges of maintaining timely outbreak detection and response at a community level.
While existing surveillance systems largely depend on data reported through healthcare facilities, many early warning signals first emerge within communities through symptoms, concerns and information requests. In several instances, misinformation and limited access to trusted health information have affected care-seeking behaviour and vaccination uptake, underscoring the need for stronger channels connecting communities and health authorities. By strengthening the ability to capture and learn from these signals, this partnership aims to support faster, more coordinated decision-making during health emergencies and improve preparedness for future outbreaks.
About Qure.ai
Qure.ai is a global AI company innovating solutions in healthcare for early detection and care management. Qure's solutions power early detection of lung nodules, neurocritical findings and infectious diseases to support clinicians and propel developments in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. The company empowers healthcare workers and health systems by helping to identify pathology quickly, prioritize treatment planning, and ultimately improve quality of patient lives. Qure.ai has deployments in over 107 countries, with regional offices in New York, London and Mumbai. It is a TIME100 Most Influential Company 2025. For more information, visit www.qure.ai/aira.
About VillageReach
VillageReach works with governments, the private sector, partners and communities to build responsive primary healthcare systems that deliver health products and services to the most under-reached. As a locally driven and globally connected organization working across Africa, VillageReach’s primary goal is to reduce inequities in access to quality primary healthcare in health systems reaching 350 million people by 2030. For more information, visit www.villagereach.org.
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