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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 ...

Haiti

Despite Challenges in Haiti, Local Groups Work Together to Keep Health Services Going

“L’union fait la force” or “Unity is strength.” It’s Haiti’s national motto, and one that Jessica Laguerre emphasized on a phone call with Direct Relief in September ...