NEW YORK, NY, May 13, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- 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.