Author Archives: Talya Meyers

Their clients have been incarcerated, sometimes for decades. They need to find jobs and housing – and quickly. Some are trying to regain custody of their children. And many have mental health issues, ranging from mild depression to more severe schizophrenia. In California’s East Bay, Roots Community Health Center, a community clinic and partner of […]

When HOPE Clinic, a federally qualified health center located in Houston, Texas, began receiving requests to help people who recently arrived from Afghanistan, they had some idea of what might be needed. Local refugee resettlement agencies were helping the new arrivals settle into new lives in the area – a familiar process for HOPE’s staff, […]

More than 12 million Ukrainians need humanitarian health care, according to the NGO AICM Ukraine, which has operated in the country since 2006. Conflict-related trauma, maternal and newborn health, chronic disease care, food security, communicable disease outbreaks, potential nuclear and chemical hazards, human trafficking, and sexual violence have all been identified in a WHO report […]

Direct Relief has issued a $583,000 grant to the International Confederation of Midwives in response to the Ukraine war. ICM, a prominent organization that represents, supports, advocates for, and educates midwives around the world, will distribute the funding to its member midwives’ associations serving Ukrainian refugee women and their families. Approximately 90% of the more […]

When the floods started, the staff members at HOPE Foundation for Women and Children of Bangladesh packed up and made the 12-hour journey by bus. Flooding has killed 68 people in Bangladesh, the majority of them in the country’s Sylhet region, and left approximately 4.5 million stranded, according to Reuters. Houses and livelihoods have been […]

At CommunityHealth, a free clinic in Chicago, about half of patients live with a chronic condition. Approximately a quarter have diabetes. Diabetes is a complex condition that generally requires changes to diet and exercise as well as careful monitoring and medication. “You’re often assuming, as a medical provider, that they may be able to join […]

Dr. Nathana Lurvey was on duty at a Los Angeles-area hospital when a pregnant woman walked in. She hadn’t been receiving prenatal care, and her hemoglobin levels were half what they should have been, indicating that she had anemia. “The baby looked terrible on the monitor,” Dr. Lurvey recalled. The mother had so few red […]

The largest of more than a dozen wildfires blazing across the southwestern United States has forced tens of thousands from their homes and threatened entire villages. Propelled by fierce winds, and defying the efforts of more than 1,800 firefighters and other responders, the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Peak Fire has grown to more than 236,000 acres in […]

When Russia invaded Ukraine, California firefighter and paramedic Oleg Klepach took to Facebook. Ukrainian-American Klepach grew up in the city of Lviv, but moved to Sacramento, California with his parents after the fall of the USSR. He’s worked first as a paramedic, than a firefighter, for more than two decades. He currently works for the […]

Before war broke out in Ukraine, Dobrobut was a force to be reckoned with. The for-profit medical system, based in Kyiv, boasted two hospitals, 17 outpatient clinics, 30% growth, 2,800 employees, a fleet of 22 ambulances, and “very big plans in terms of becoming a national provider,” said COO Vadim Shekman. “We’re socially conscious, but […]