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Health workers took heroic measures to protect people from overdoses in 2019, whether in Virginia or Puerto Rico. Above, Dr. Chaco Vargas hugs a patient in Puerto Rico while doing outreach earlier this year to those in recovery from opioid addiction. (Bimarian Films)

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Damage to the city of Tacloban, in the Philippines, in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan. (Photo by Jodie Willard for Direct Relief)

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10 Disasters That Changed the World

Direct Relief's Gordon Willcock meets with a doctor in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian hit the islands as a Category 5 hurricane in August.

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A Year of Disasters Brings Another Year of Response

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)

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Hundreds of Thousands in India Evacuated Ahead of Severe Cyclone

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Tracking Population Data Could Change Disaster Response

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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)

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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)

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Cyclone Kenneth Sweeps Through Mozambique

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Protective gear for health workers arrives at Gloucester Matthews Care Clinic in Gloucester, Virginia in March, 2020. The shipment included N95 masks, gloves, gowns and other protective gear requested to prevent the spread of coronavirus. (Courtesy photo)

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A Direct Relief staff member delivers personal protective equipment to Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics, a California health center, on March 26. (Photo by Direct Relief)

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Community Healthcare Network staffers unpack medical supplies in NYC on March 18.(Photo Courtesy of Community Healthcare Network)

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10 Disasters That Changed the World

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

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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?

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Cyclone Kenneth Sweeps Through Mozambique

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