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A patient and her caregiver in the waiting room of Ruth Paz Hospital in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The hospital provides charitable care for pediatric patients, and Direct Relief shipped more than $961,000 worth of medical aid to the hospital over the past week. (Photo by Francesca Volpi for Direct Relief)

Covid-19

Operational Update: 21 Countries Receive Medical Aid Over Past Week

Medical aid for India departs for Mumbai on June 12, 2021, as part of a third FedEx charter flight carrying out Covid-19 response deliveries. (FedEx photo)

Covid-19

Third FedEx-Donated Humanitarian Charter Arrives in India

Staff at Henry J. Austin Health Center in Trenton, New Jersey. Health centers across the United States provide quality care to patients, regardless of ability to pay, and are essential for health equity efforts. (Photo courtesy of Henry J. Austin Health Center)

Health Equity

Direct Relief’s Fund for Health Equity Receives $5 Million Commitment from 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

Shipments of medicines leave Direct Relief's warehouse bound for health facilities across the United States. Over the past 10 years, Direct Relief has worked with with several companies and nonprofit safety-net healthcare providers across 22 states as an alternative to the traditional patient assistance model. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)

United States

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

Since 2011, Direct Relief and the Life for a Child Program have partnered to ship insulin and supplies to manage Type 1 diabetes to more than 35 countries, including to children like Manuel. He receives supplies to manage his diabetes through his local health center in Bolivia. (Photo by Alejandra Arevalo Castrati for Life for a Child)

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

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Resilient Power

Predicting Community Health Center Power and Cold-Chain Readiness in California

The High Rock Clinic, July 23, 2021. (Maeve O'Connor/Direct Relief)

Health

Rebuilding in the Bahamas, Mental Health Support for Surfside First Responders, Wildfires

A firefighter works to quell the flames of the El Dorado Fire burning in California's San Bernardino mountains on Sept. 10, 2020. (Photo courtesy of San Bernardino County Fire Department)

California Wildfires

Facing Worsening Fire Seasons, California Health Centers Adapt

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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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