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Helping Infants Breathe in Lebanon, Distributing Medicines in Honduras, and More

Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 483 shipments of requested medical aid to 47 U.S. states and territories and 16 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 10.6 million ...

Alaska

Healthcare at the Top of the World

The Alaska island of Little Diomede is in the Bering Strait, less than 2.5 miles from Russian territory. It’s home to a community of about 80, most of them Inupiat people practicing a ...

Maternal Health

Bangladesh Maternal Health Programs Save Lives, Build Careers

The young midwife’s pregnant patient was convulsing – the onset of severe eclampsia – in the middle of a cyclone in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. “There was no electricity, no senior ...