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Dr. LaVonne Ansari, pictured here on right, is the CEO and executive director of Community Health Center of Buffalo, Inc. @chcb_inc which has remained in the predominantly Black neighborhood along with her medical team to support those affected by the recent shooting at Tops Friendly Market on May 14. As the nation responds to the shooting and Buffalo residents grapple with a traumatic event, local Black leaders including Dr. Ansari, Thomas Beauford, president and CEO of The Buffalo Urban League @716urbanleague, and Pastor George Nicholas, photo 2, founding member of the African American Health Equity Task Force in Buffalo, NY say leadership is more critical than ever. Since January 2020, Direct Relief has provided local healthcare providers in Buffalo, including Community Health Center of Buffalo, Inc. with more than $300,000 in grant funding and donated medical resources. Link in bio for full story. (Photo 1 courtesy of Community Health Center of Buffalo, Inc., Photo 2 courtesy of Pastor George Nicholas)

N-95 masks, back-up power units & other requested items bound for Navajo Nation in response to the #HaywireFire & #PipelineFire.

Direct Relief is awarding $650,000 to Together New Orleans’ Community Lighthouse project to fund the construction of the first solar- and battery-powered resilience hub in the Gulf South at CrescentCare @crescentcarenola community health center, which provides health and wellness services to underserved populations in the City of New Orleans. The grant is part of Direct Relief’s new Power for Health Initiative, which seeks to ensure that vulnerable nonprofit community health centers and charitable clinics in the U.S. stay powered and remain operational through increasingly common power outages resulting from natural disasters and electrical grid failures. Link in bio for full story.

This week, 200,000 doses of Covid-19 therapy medication transported by Direct Relief were received by Ukraine’s Ministry of Health in Lviv, with four more shipments on the way. Since February 24, Direct Relief has provided medical aid weighing more than 1.4 million pounds, or 700 tons in weight, with more to come. (Courtesy photo)

ARRIVED: A seventh field hospital kit donated by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services @cal_oes arrived safely this weekend in Ukraine. Each kit contains 50 beds, IV kits, and trauma care supplies. (Photos courtesy of Zhytomyr Humanitarian Hub @humanhubzhyt )

Pharmacies, hospitals and clinics in Lebanon have reported a shortage of cancer medications. Some patients are getting only intermittent treatments. Others have no access to treatment at all. In response, a donation of anti-cancer and insulin medications made by Direct Relief has recently been distributed to local hospitals by @aneraorg . The medications are an essential part of a new biological therapy for cancers like melanoma, leukemia, and solid tumor cancers such as lung cancer. Link in bio for full story.

Over the past seven days, Direct Relief delivered 374 shipments of requested medical aid to 48 U.S. states and territories and eight countries worldwide, including Ukraine. The shipments contained 23.2 million defined daily doses of medication, including N-95 masks, mental health medications, antibiotics, chronic disease medications, nutritional products, insulin, and cancer treatments. Link in bio for full operational update.

With the 2022 Atlantic #hurricane season officially starting on June 1, Direct Relief is staging caches of emergency medical supplies along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts and throughout the Caribbean and Central America. The caches contain the medical items most needed in the wake of a disaster, including trauma supplies, antibiotics, and medications for diabetes, hypertension and other chronic conditions.

In the three months since the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces on February 24, 2022, Direct Relief has emerged as one of the largest charitable providers of medical aid to Ukraine, delivering more than 650 tons (1.3 million pounds) of medicines and supplies and providing over $14.6 million in direct financial assistance to other organizations in the region. Link in bio for full three month summary. (Photo by Maeve O’Connor/Direct Relief)

In April, the lights went out across Puerto Rico once again. This time, however, it was an opportunity to test the new radios and streamline the communications plans – part of the process of strengthening what Cordero calls an “emergency management culture.” According to Cordero, the communications network will “save time when communicating a need” and allow participants to “redirect resources to address continued needs,” making it more likely that community health centers will be able to continue responding to the emergency. It will also make reporting to government entities easier. After Hurricane Maria, “we had to visit each of the clinics,” said Dr. Darielys Cordero of the Puerto Rico Primary Care Association. PRPCA. Now, with reports coming in from across the island, “the information process flows quicker.”

Over the past seven days, Direct Relief delivered 330 shipments of requested medical aid to 48 U.S. states and territories and seven countries worldwide, including Ukraine. The shipments contained 4.3 million defined daily doses of medication, including N-95 masks, mental health medications, antibiotics, chronic disease medications, nutritional products, insulin, and cancer treatments. This week, a shipment of prenatal vitamins departed for Afghanistan to support pregnancy care provided by a hospital in Kabul. The shipment, weighing more than 1,700 pounds, contains 1,231,000 defined daily doses of multivitamins. Direct Relief has provided more than 187 tons of medical aid to health facilities in Afghanistan since 2008.

As #wildfires continue to grow in duration, scale and severity in the United States, a new slate of data-based tools is being honed to help government officials, first responders, and nonprofits make more informed decisions. “We’ve got several pieces of research converging all at one time,” said Andrew Schroeder, VP of research and development at Direct Relief and co-director of CrisisReady. Research and new technologies have played an increasingly central role in state-level emergency responses for years, as decision-makers have seen the benefits of data-driven decisions. “We have more data, but data systems and tools have not kept up,” Schroeder said

ARRIVED: IV fluids, donated by @baxter_intl , arrived in Kharkiv, Ukraine, this week to support medical care in northeastern Ukraine. (Photos courtesy of Kharkiv City Council)

Gennadiy Trukhanov, the Mayor of Odessa, Ukraine reviews the recently-arrived shipment of a field hospital donated by California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (@cal_oes) and delivered by Direct Relief. This field hospital is one of five that has arrived in Ukraine, and contains 50 beds, wound and IV kits, and critical trauma care supplies. (Videos courtesy of the Office of the Mayor of Odessa)