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Medical supplies bound for the Zambezia Province of Mozambique are staged at Direct Relief's warehouse in Santa Barbara, California, on Friday, March 22, 2019. The organization is shipping essential medical supplies, like antibiotics, wound care, and water purification tablets, to health partners in the region. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)

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Health Risks Rise in the Wake of Cyclone Idai

Shipments of medical aid leave Direct Relief's warehouse Thursday bound for Good Neighbor Community Health Center in Columbus, Nebraska. Included in the shipment were tetanus vaccines, which will be used to vaccinate people before the return to their home and begin clean-up from the widespread flooding that has damaged the region. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)

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Emergency Shipments Depart for Flooded Communities in Nebraska

Aerial view of Tengani, Nsanje, which sits on the Malawi-Mozambique border. The region was affected by floods due to incessant rains from March 5 to March 9, 2019. The area was inundated with flooding even before Cyclone Idai made landfall earlier this week in Mozambique. (UNICEF/Juskauskas)

Cyclone Idai

Mozambique Faces Possible Worst-Ever Weather Disaster in Southern Hemisphere

Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai Inundates Mozambique, Leaves Devastating Wake

Floodwaters covered portions of Nebraska this week, where many evacuations have been ordered as waters continue to rise across the region. (Photo courtesy of Nebraska National Guard)

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Emergency Declarations Issued Across Midwest as Floodwaters Rise

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Treating Patients Beyond Hospital Walls in Yemen

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Aiding the Fight Against Measles in Madagascar

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Emergency Update: Tropical Cyclone Idai Makes Landfall in Mozambique

The map above plots areas of Mozambique where the population is higher or lower than baseline levels. Red bars signify areas where a population higher than baseline have moved to over the past 24 hours, and blue bars indicated where people have moved from.

Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai: Analyzing Population Movement in Mozambique

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Cyclone Idai Churns Towards Mozambique

Mr. Pavel Shidlovsky, Charge d’Affaires, a.i. of Belarus in the U.S. (left), Thomas Tighe, Direct Relief President and CEO (middle), and Dr. Viachaslau Shyla, Deputy Minister of Health of Belarus (right), signing an agreement on March, 8, 2019, to increase cancer therapies for patients at two prominent oncology centers in Belarus. (Photo: Tony Morain/Direct Relief)

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Expanding Access to Cancer Therapies in Belarus

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Collapsed buildings and infrastructure reveal the devastation caused by the 6.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok on August 5, 2018. Direct Relief staff visited the area days after the quake to assess the situation and support local partners responding to those in need. (Gordon Wilcock/Direct Relief)

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Health Risks Rise in the Wake of Cyclone Idai

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Emergency Shipments Depart for Flooded Communities in Nebraska

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Mozambique Faces Possible Worst-Ever Weather Disaster in Southern Hemisphere

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Aiding the Fight Against Measles in Madagascar

Cyclone Idai

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