Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 644 shipments of requested medical aid to 47 U.S. states and territories and 13 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 6.2 million defined daily doses of medication.

Medications and supplies shipped this week included therapies for cancer treatment, rare disease management, antibiotics, diabetes management medications, personal protective equipment, and more.

Supporting Haiti Hospitals

Direct Relief recently dispatched a shipment of essential medical aid to support healthcare in Haiti. Hospital Albert Schweitzer operates a 200-bed hospital in the Artibonite Valley of central Haiti. The hospital is the only hospital for more than 600 square miles and serves a population of more than 350,000 people. The hospital offers vulnerable patients specialized care, including surgeries, high-risk obstetrics, and a dedicated neonatal ward for premature and sick infants.

HAS also sponsors water and sanitation projects, operates community clinics, and sends trained community health workers to remote mountainous areas with vaccines, malnutrition screening tools, and other basic health services.

Since 2010, Direct Relief has provided the hospital with more than $16.5 million in medical aid. Recent support to the hospital included antibiotics, respiratory medications, diabetes treatment therapies, oral rehydration salts, water purification tablets, wound care and surgical supplies, and more. The hospital continues serving patients despite civil unrest in the country. The organization’s leadership team visited Direct Relief in May 2025 to strategize around ongoing support for the group’s medical work in Haiti.

Medical Aid to Ukraine

Direct Relief-provided medical aid continues to reach health organizations in Ukraine administering care.

Recently, medical support was delivered throughout the Poltava region of Ukraine to Kozelshina and Kremenchuk, focusing on institutions that provide comprehensive medical care to their patients. Working with NGO Hospitable Hut in Ukraine, essential medicines and personal care products were distributed.

Direct Relief has provided more than $1.8 billion in medical support for Ukraine relief since February 2022.

Supporting Children in Turkey, Post-Earthquake

Children gather at INSEV’s Lemon Tree Mobile Mental Health and Psychosocial Services Unit for Children in Hatay, Turkey. Direct Relief has supported INSEV with financial assistance to further its mission of expanding services for children impacted by the 2023 earthquakes. Recently, volunteer instructor Gizem Yıldız from Atay Aknehir Ronya Art Cooperative held a drama workshop for children living in transitional housing, post-earthquake.

INSEV is an NGO based in Istanbul and has been working on initiatives to support access to healthcare in Hatay, an area affected by the earthquakes. The organization has been supporting children since the early days after the earthquakes in Hatay, including with mental health and psychosocial services for young people.

Direct Relief has provided more than $208 million in medical aid in response to the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake, as well as more than $10 million in financial support to organizations, including INSEV, focused on earthquake recovery.

Operational Snapshot

UNITED STATES

Direct Relief delivered 617 shipments containing 801,735 doses of medication during the past month to organizations, including the following:

Around the World

Globally, Direct Relief shipped over 1.8 million defined daily doses of medication, totaling 84,539 lbs., to countries including the following:

YEAR-TO-DATE

Since January 1, 2025, Direct Relief has delivered 12.6K shipments to 2,018 partner organizations in 54 U.S. states and territories and 78 countries. These shipments included 114.5 million defined daily doses of medication, valued at $979.1 million wholesale, totaling 2.0 million lbs.

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