Category Archives: Health

Over the past seven days, Direct Relief has delivered 499 shipments of requested medical aid to 48 U.S. states and territories and 13 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 21.5 million defined daily doses of medication, including antibiotics, prenatal vitamins, diabetes management medications and supplies, trauma care supplies, and more. Turkey-Syria Earthquake Response Through assessments and […]

Over the past seven days, Direct Relief has delivered 284 shipments of requested medical aid to 40 U.S. states and territories and nine countries worldwide. The shipments contained 12.7 million defined daily doses of medication, including PPE, antibiotics, field medic packs, diabetes management medications and supplies, cancer therapies, personal care products, and more. Direct Relief […]

Over the past seven days, Direct Relief has delivered 284 shipments of requested medical aid to 40 U.S. states and territories and nine countries worldwide. The shipments contained 12.7 million defined daily doses of medication, including PPE, antibiotics, field medic packs, diabetes management medications and supplies, cancer therapies, personal care products, and more. Direct Relief […]

Award-Winning Photojournalist Oscar B. Castillo, who has previously reported for Direct Relief from Venezuela, Colombia, North Macedonia, Poland, and Ukraine, traveled to Ciudad Juarez and El Paso over Christmas and New Year’s to report on the ongoing border crisis. His photo essay and dispatch follow. In many ways, Ciudad Juarez represents the last of a […]

Much of California faces another atmospheric river event as heavy rains moved back into the State Monday evening, causing power outages and prompting evacuations. The storm is the latest severe storm to drench the State, coming on the heels of heavy rains and extreme weather just one week ago, when flash flooding and high winds […]

Over the past seven days, Direct Relief has delivered 241 shipments of requested medical aid to 31 U.S. states and territories and 15 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 11.8 million defined daily doses of medication, including antibiotics, field medic packs, diabetes management medications and supplies, cancer therapies, personal care products, and more. Turkey-Syria Earthquake Response […]

The opioid epidemic facing the United States in recent years has not spared children. Between 2010 and 2021, the death toll for adolescent overdose deaths in the United States rose from 518 to 1,146 people, according to a JAMA-published study from last year. UCLA figures showed overdose deaths increased exponentially in 2020 and the first […]

After three years cholera-free, Haiti officials reported two confirmed cases of the disease in October 2022. Five months later, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs suspects the disease has spread to over 33,600 residents—most of whom are children under age five. Haiti’s Department of Epidemiology, Laboratories, and Research (DELR) reported over […]

More than a month after a 7.8- magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, the death toll has surpassed 50,000. Nearly 2.2 million people have been displaced, including 1.9 million who have relocated outside of the earthquake-impacted areas of Turkey. Humanitarian aid organizations continue response efforts, but those on the ground say it will be a […]

Over the past seven days, Direct Relief has delivered 286 shipments of requested medical aid to 44 U.S. states and territories and eighteen countries worldwide. The shipments contained 13.5 million defined daily doses of medication, including antibiotics, emergency medical backpacks, personal care products, and more. Turkey-Syria Earthquake Response Direct Relief’s response to recent earthquakes in […]