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Direct Relief is supporting vaccination efforts on the island. By Ana Umpierre Regina Ramos and Santiago Del Valle, who live together in Caguas, are both over 65. They were eager to receive a...

Aid groups on the ground, supported by Direct Relief, are distributing medical supplies, food, and shelter. By Talya Meyers DECEMBER 24, 2020 6:25 AM Yasa, a Category 5 cyclone, crashed into Fiji on...

The disaster response group, AKUT, pulled survivors from the rubble of last month's Aegean quake. Now, they're providing ongoing support to Turkey's displaced. By Talya Meyers On October 30, a...

By Noah Smith Hurricane Iota walloped Nicaragua last week with Category 4 winds of 155 miles per hour. The storm, which Nicaragua’s government declared the strongest ever to hit the nation, came on...

By Cydney Justman Hurricane Iota, thought to be the strongest storm ever to strike Nicaragua, slammed into the country’s Caribbean coast on Monday evening as a Category 4 hurricane. The storm made...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, over 3 million children are being vaccinated by community health workers, or CHWs, in a polio campaign that aims to prevent a resurgence of the dangerous...

Health care providers in Honduras warn of difficult days ahead. By Noah Smith Hurricane Eta hit Nicaragua and Honduras as a Category 4 storm Tuesday, with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per...

As earthquakes rocked Puerto Rico this year, this midwife went where her patients most needed her. Now she's finding new ways to help them. By Ana Umpierre After a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked...

By Noah Smith As an orthopedic surgeon and medical chief of staff at Rand Memorial Hospital, the main hospital in Grand Bahama, Dr. Freeman Lockhart did not expect to be working in a war zone-like...

With rising Covid-19 case counts, economic troubles, a drastic increase in chronic and mental health conditions, and an outflow of doctors and nurses, Lebanon's health facilities are feeling the...

Medical aid is staged, prepped for impacted communities in U.S., Mexico. By Lara Cooper Hurricane Delta battered part of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, and the U.S. Gulf Coast is bracing...

FedEx and Direct Relief Team Up to Deliver More than $11 Million Worth of Critical Medical Resources More than 60 tons of critical aid from Direct Relief will soon offer needed relief to medical...

Health officials and NGOs are drawing on lessons learned during cholera outbreak to combat the pandemic. Haiti has at least 7,743 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and at least 187 deaths, according to the...

COVID-19 Action Fund for Africa (CAFA) airlifting nine 747 cargo loads of masks and other PPE to 12 countries in first round Largest mobilization of PPE to Africa aims to protect one million...

By Noah Smith The massive explosion in Beirut on Tuesday has now claimed at least 135 lives, with thousands more injured. Reports claim that 2,750 tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate exploded...

Puerto Rico, which has confronted earthquakes, drought, and Covid-19 in recent months, was deluged by the passing storm system. By Talya Meyers Tropical Storm Isaias, raking a path through the...

By Noah Smith Tropical Storm Gonzalo is continuing its path across the Atlantic Ocean, aiming for the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles as soon as Saturday. Gonzalo formed late Tuesday, making it the...

Lessons from Ebola are being applied continent-wide, and could work in U.S., says WHO doctor By Noah Smith Africa currently has the second-fewest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the world,...

With months of response and little reprieve, doctors and medical staff in Mexico plow through exhaustion and fear for their patients. By Michael Snyder MORELOS, Mexico — Elías Alejandro Albarrán...