Eli Lilly

A pharmacist at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, dispenses medication in February 2021. Direct Relief has been able to provide critical donations to the facility since 2020's explosion. (Photo by Francesca Volpi for Direct Relief)

Beirut Explosion

In Lebanon, Insulin and Other Chronic Disease Medications Are Hard to Come By

Medical aid prepared for delivery to health centers and clinics across the US. (Photo: Tony Morain)

Covid-19

Operational Update: 448 Medical Aid Shipments. $530,000 in Funding.

Direct Relief CEO Thomas Tighe delivers masks to essential workers in Goleta and Santa Barbara (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief).

Covid-19

Covid-19 Relief: One-Year Report on Use of Funds and Response Activity

The latest shipment of personal protective equipment, including surgical masks and N95 respirator masks, departs Direct Relief's warehouse Thursday, bound for medical facilities in China. (Tony Morain/Direct Relief)

Covid-19

U.S. Private Sector Backing China’s Coronavirus Fight

When Direct Relief receives a donation of insulin, it is stored in the organization’s 2,800-square-foot cold room, which stays between between 36 and 41 degrees Fahrenheit. The room is stacked floor to ceiling with temperature-sensitive medications, like insulin and vaccines, and where that medication is packed into special cold shipping containers that keep temperature consistent until the insulin arrives at the health center, clinic or hospital able to store it and administer to patients. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)

Disease Prevention

Forging the Links of Cold Chain Medication

United States

“A Treatment is Only as Good as the System That Delivers It”

Diabetes

In More than 35 Countries, Insulin Reaches Children and Young Adults

Direct Relief staff packs requested medicines and medical supplies for Advance Community Health, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Caroline Vance/Direct Relief)

Hurricane Florence

Direct Relief Makes Available $100 Million in Medicine

Hurricane Preparedness Packs are built inside Direct Relief's warehouse. The packs contain essential medicines and supplies and are prepositioned in hurricane and typhoon-prone areas around the world. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)

Hurricanes

Medical Aid Prepositioned as Hurricane Florence Approaches East Coast

Insulin, donated by Eli Lilly, pictured inside Direct Relief's temperature controlled cold room. A recent donation from Eli Lilly will allow Direct Relief to ship a regular supply of insulin to nearly 30 clinics across the United States. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)

Diabetes

Managing Diabetes, Across the U.S. and Around the World

A shipment of critical insulin for the Syrian American Medical Society is staged for pickup in temperature-controlled packaging at Direct Relief’s warehouse in California on April 17, 2018. (Martin Calderon/Direct Relief)

Syrian Refugee Crisis

Insulin Reaches Syrian Children with Diabetes

79,365 lbs of medications, nutritionals and medical supplies from Direct Relief arrive at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan. (Photo: Lara Cooper)

Hurricane Maria

Direct Relief Airlifts 79,365 lbs of Emergency Medical Aid to Puerto Rico

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Health providers are integrating mental health services and chronic disease care to help patients better manage their medical conditions. (iStock image)

Disease Prevention

Chronic Disease and Mental Health are Linked. But How?

Participants embrace after a group session at Puerto Rico's Center for Mind-Body Medicine. The Center said people close, lasting bonds from sharing their personal stories and experiences. (Courtesy photo)

Health

Global Update: Volcanic Eruption; Overdose-Reversing Medication; Global Grants

Los Puertorriqueños participan en una sesión de yoga. El yoga básico es una de las técnicas centrales que
El centro enseña.(Foto cortesía del Centro de Medicina de la Mente y el Cuerpo)

Hurricane Maria

“Momentos de Calma”. En Puerto Rico, Desarrollando las Habilidades Emocionales para Hacer Frente al Desastre.

Essential medicines are packed before shipment to hurricane prone-communities in the United States, which are facing a high activity storm season, on top of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Health centers and free clinics across the U.S. are working to continue services even as challenges remain. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)

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Eli Lilly

Beirut Explosion

In Lebanon, Insulin and Other Chronic Disease Medications Are Hard to Come By

Covid-19

Operational Update: 448 Medical Aid Shipments. $530,000 in Funding.

Covid-19

Covid-19 Relief: One-Year Report on Use of Funds and Response Activity

Covid-19

U.S. Private Sector Backing China’s Coronavirus Fight

Disease Prevention

Forging the Links of Cold Chain Medication

United States

“A Treatment is Only as Good as the System That Delivers It”

Diabetes

In More than 35 Countries, Insulin Reaches Children and Young Adults

Hurricane Florence

Direct Relief Makes Available $100 Million in Medicine

Hurricanes

Medical Aid Prepositioned as Hurricane Florence Approaches East Coast

Diabetes

Managing Diabetes, Across the U.S. and Around the World

Syrian Refugee Crisis

Insulin Reaches Syrian Children with Diabetes

Hurricane Maria

Direct Relief Airlifts 79,365 lbs of Emergency Medical Aid to Puerto Rico

The Latest

Disease Prevention

Chronic Disease and Mental Health are Linked. But How?

Health

Global Update: Volcanic Eruption; Overdose-Reversing Medication; Global Grants

Hurricane Maria

“Momentos de Calma”. En Puerto Rico, Desarrollando las Habilidades Emocionales para Hacer Frente al Desastre.

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