- Femicide is an urgent, growing concern in Brazil, driving need for earlier detection and intervention in gender-based violence.
- ClarIA, a novel health care AI tool, analyses clinical data to detect signs of gender-based violence before crises emerge.
- Early AI detection could enable proactive clinical responses, reduce risk of femicide, and reshape Brazil's health system approach to violence prevention.
J Med Internet Res. 2026 Oct 19;28:e112991. doi: 10.2196/112991.
ABSTRACT
Femicide is an urgent and growing concern in Brazil-a new health care AI tool may offer a way to detect gender-based violence before it can get to that point. In this News and Perspectives article, JMIR Correspondent Luke Taylor reports on the potential of the ClarIA tool, the first story in his two-part series on how AI is helping make health care more proactive in Brazil.
PMID:42895815 | DOI:10.2196/112991
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