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Dr. Neide Santos and Dr. Shilpa Jamnadas, medical director of Mascarenhas Hospital in Beira. (Noah Smith/ Direct Relief)

Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai Destroyed Their Hospital. They Never Stopped Treating Patients.

Cyclone Vayu is charging towards western India and southeastern Pakistan and is expected to make landfall Thursday. Direct Relief is contacting local partner healthcare facilities to gauge medical needs. (Map courtesy of earth.nullschool.net)

Cyclones

Hundreds of Thousands in India Evacuated Ahead of Severe Cyclone

Hurricanes

Tracking Population Data Could Change Disaster Response

Mozambique

After Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, Recovery in Mozambique Continues

Epidemiologists at Harvard School of Public Health, with whom Direct Relief, Nethope, Facebook's Data for Good team, and the Northwestern University School of Medicine have been collaborating since the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, have updated their model to understand how the emergence of cholera cases could spread to better target vaccination efforts.

Predicting the Spread of Cholera in Mozambique

Families evacuate in Odisha, India, before Cyclone Fani came ashore on Friday. (Photo courtesy of Odisha Police Department)

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Millions Evacuate as Deadly Cyclone Fani Lashes India, Churns Towards Bangladesh

Cyclone Fani is on track to make landfall on Friday in India. (Map courtesy of earth.nullschool.net)

Cyclones

India, Bangladesh Facing Strongest Cyclone in Decades

A medical worker fills a bucket with clean water outside an emergency treatment tent at the Macurungo Urban Health Center in Beira, Mozambique, on Friday, March 29, 2019. Cyclone Idai hit the Mozambican coast earlier this month, devastating the port city of Beira and killing at least 700 people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Cyclone Kenneth is dealing a second blow to the country. (Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Cholera

If Cyclone Kenneth Leads to Cholera in Mozambique, Who Is Most at Risk?

Cyclone Kenneth makes landfall over Mozambique on Thursday, displacing thousands just a month after Cyclone Idai devastated the country. (Satellite image courtesy of NASA/EPA)

Cyclones

Cyclone Kenneth Sweeps Through Mozambique

Tropical Storm Kenneth is tracking towards the Mozambique/Tanzania border later this week.

Cyclone Idai

Weeks After Cyclone Idai, Mozambique Braces for Second Impact with Tropical Storm Kenneth

Storm patterns in the Indian Ocean show cyclone paths since 1924.

Cyclone Idai

Rethinking Disaster Preparedness in Southern Africa After Cyclone Idai

IV solution, antibiotics and oral rehydration salts, all used to help patients treat and recover from cholera, are staged for shipment on Friday in Direct Relief's warehouse. The shipment is bound for Sofala Province in Mozambique, where the supplies will be distributed to health facilities working to treat patients with cholera. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)

Cyclone Idai

With Cholera, Cyclone Idai Deals Another Blow

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First responders pose outside of an ambulance in Hodeidah. (Photo courtesy of Yemen Aid)

Yemen Crisis

In War-Torn Yemen, Ambulance Teams See Death – and New Life

Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai Destroyed Their Hospital. They Never Stopped Treating Patients.

Damage on one of the outlying cays of the Abaco Islands. Many Bahamians returning to the Abacos are sheltering in badly damaged houses. (Andrew MacCalla/Direct Relief)

Hurricane Dorian

More Than 3,000 People Return to Rough Conditions on Abaco Islands

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Cyclones

Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai Destroyed Their Hospital. They Never Stopped Treating Patients.

Cyclones

Hundreds of Thousands in India Evacuated Ahead of Severe Cyclone

Hurricanes

Tracking Population Data Could Change Disaster Response

Mozambique

After Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, Recovery in Mozambique Continues

Predicting the Spread of Cholera in Mozambique

Cyclones

Millions Evacuate as Deadly Cyclone Fani Lashes India, Churns Towards Bangladesh

Cyclones

India, Bangladesh Facing Strongest Cyclone in Decades

Cholera

If Cyclone Kenneth Leads to Cholera in Mozambique, Who Is Most at Risk?

Cyclones

Cyclone Kenneth Sweeps Through Mozambique

Cyclone Idai

Weeks After Cyclone Idai, Mozambique Braces for Second Impact with Tropical Storm Kenneth

Cyclone Idai

Rethinking Disaster Preparedness in Southern Africa After Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai

With Cholera, Cyclone Idai Deals Another Blow

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In War-Torn Yemen, Ambulance Teams See Death – and New Life

Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai Destroyed Their Hospital. They Never Stopped Treating Patients.

Hurricane Dorian

More Than 3,000 People Return to Rough Conditions on Abaco Islands

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