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AIRE: Advancing International Respiratory Education

Every Breath Matters

Premature newborns often struggle to breathe on their own and depend on respiratory support to survive. While lifesaving, oxygen therapy requires careful monitoring to prevent complications, including lung injury and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), which can lead to vision loss or blindness.

Through AIRE, we hope to improve respiratory care for premature newborns while supporting the local clinicians who care for them.

A Partnership Built Around Local Priorities

Through the Advancing International Respiratory Education (AIRE) program, UT Austin's neonatal team, led by Dr. Alan Groves, is partnering with neonatologist Dr. Martha Zamora and local healthcare professionals in Puebla and Tlaxcala, Mexico.

Together, the teams aim to strengthen newborn respiratory care through appropriate equipment, staff training, collaborative research, and quality improvement, resulting in lasting improvements in neonatal care that can be sustained independently by local teams.

Guided by local clinicians and their priorities, AIRE will introduce respiratory support equipment that blends air and oxygen, provides humidification, and supports careful monitoring. The initiative also aims to expand access to screening and treatment for ROP, working alongside retinal specialist Dr. Luis Alberto Ramírez Ponce.

Beyond improving neonatal care, this initiative also provides opportunities for emerging scholars to gain experience in clinical research, quality improvement, and equitable, locally led global health partnerships under the mentorship of experienced clinicians.

Your Support Makes the Next Step Possible

Our goal is to raise $17,000 to support respiratory equipment, medical supplies, newborn eye screening, clinical training, and essential project expenses.

Every contribution helps bring this collaboration closer to improving care for vulnerable newborns.

MÁS AIRE, MÁS VIDA.

ONE BREATH AT A TIME.

Your donation can help bring AIRE into the lungs of newborns in Mexico by advancing research, nurturing the next generation of scholars, and breathing new life into neonatal care. Thank you for helping this partnership grow.

The equipment your support can help provide

We plan to source bubble CPAP equipment and an oxygen blender from Vayu for this collaboration. Having an oxygen blender will help us avoid providing more oxygen than the baby needs, which is associated with increased risk of blindness.

Device images: Vayu. Source: Vayu Foundation.