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Essential medicines and supplies bound for Paraguay are staged and shipped from Direct Relief's warehouse last week before arriving in the country on Monday, June 10. Flooding across Paraguay has displaced more than 70,000 people, and medical and supplies were provided to the country's Ministry of Health as they work to treat patients in impacted areas. FedEx provided logistics and transportation of the shipment, free of charge. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)

Paraguay

FedEx, Direct Relief Deliver Essential Medicines to Flood-Inundated Paraguay

Flooding has inundated communities across Paraguay after seasonal rains swept through the region. Direct Relief is working with agencies responding, including Paraguay's Ministry of Health, to coordinate shipments of requested medical aid. Here, emergency responders help residents evacuate. (Photo courtesy of Paraguay's Secretariat of National Emergency)

Paraguay

Floods in Paraguay Displace Thousands

A delegation from Paraguay, including the country’s newly elected Minister of Health, Dr. Julio Daniel Mazzoleni Insfran, receives a tour of Direct Relief’s new distribution center and offices from CEO Thomas Tighe on March 4, 2019. Direct Relief has shipped $160 million worth of medical aid to Paraguay since 2013. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)

Paraguay

Paraguayan Minister of Health and Delegation Visit Direct Relief

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

Earthquakes

Strong Earthquake Rocks Venezuela, Caribbean

Volunteers, military, police, and city rescue workers dig through the rubble of a fallen textile factory in the Obrera neighborhood of Mexico City on Wednesday Sept. 20, 2017 a day after an earthquake collapsed many buildings in the city.

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Dr. Zeni Duarte meets with a patient in her office on Roatan, an island off the coast of Honduras. A lack of mental health professionals
in the country was a driving force for her entry into the field of psychiatry. (Courtesy photo)

Honduras

Inspired by a Tiny Island, A Doctor Turns to Psychiatry

Hepatitis A cases as seen across the state of Pennsylvania, with a concentration of cases in the City of Philadelphia. Public health officials are working to contain the outbreak. (Direct Relief map)

Disease Prevention

In Philadelphia, Striving to Halt the Spread of Hepatitis A

Gloves and boots at an Ebola treatment center in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. The DRC is currently experiencing the second worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history. (Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

DRC Ebola Outbreak

Health Workers Battle for Containment as Ebola Outbreak Continues

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