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From Cholera Treatments to Cancer Therapies, Medical Aid Departs for 20 Countries

Direct Relief's Humanitarian Activity for the week of 04/04/2025 - 04/10/2025

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Operational Update

Medical aid departs for Tanzania on April 10, 2025, bound for a hospital in Tanzania. The Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania is a nonprofit hospital based in Dar es Salaam and one of the largest providers of disability and rehabilitation services in Tanzania, offering specialized care in maternal and child health, eye care, orthopedics, and obstetric fistula treatment. The shipment, weighing over 1,500 pounds, included personal protective equipment, sterile IV fluids, and prescription medications, including those commonly used for pain management and post-operative care. (Shannon Hickerson/Direct Relief)
By Staff

Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 484 shipments of requested medical aid to 50 U.S. states and territories and 20 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 2.5 million defined daily doses of medication.

Medications and supplies shipped this week included medications for rare diseases, midwifery kits filled with medical essentials for safe births, diabetes management medications, refrigerators and cold storage for temperature-sensitive medications, personal protective equipment, cancer treatment therapies, and more.

Supporting Rapid Response to Cholera in South Sudan

Staff from the International Organization for Migration South Sudan receive cholera treatment medications and supplies. (Courtesy photo)

Direct Relief provided medical aid has supported the cholera treatment response in South Sudan, allowing health workers to provide prevention and treatment for the disease which can quickly become deadly. An outbreak was declared by South Sudan’s Ministry of Health last October, and Direct Relief shipped a cholera treatment kit, which includes personal protective equipment, oral rehydration salts, and more. The shipment was received by the International Office of Migration South Sudan, which deployed the supplies to the hardest-hit areas,

Equipped with Direct Relief-supplied field medic packs and cholera response materials. With these supplies, they established a cholera treatment center at Mayom Hospital, where they successfully treated and discharged 565 patients. Mobile oral rehydration points were set up to provide cholera treatment to communities in remote and hard-to-reach areas. The IOM rapid response team also rehabilitated a community water source, and constructed new sanitation facilities, restoring clean water access and significantly reducing the threat of cholera transmission for thousands of people.

As a result of rapid response efforts, IOM reported cholera hospitalizations in Mayom County dropped from an average of 50 cases per day to an average of one per day.

As cholera outbreaks persist worldwide, Direct Relief continues to send life-saving materials to help curb the spread and mortality of the disease. A new shipment of cholera treatment kits and other emergency medical supplies to IOM South Sudan is currently in process, and additional cholera response shipments are underway for Sudan and Haiti.

Medical Aid Departs for the Democratic Republic of Congo

Shipments depart for Jericho Road’s Wellness Clinic in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo on April 10, 2025. (Shannon Hickerson/Direct Relief)

In response to the ongoing violence in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Direct Relief has shipped a range of emergency medical supplies and essential medications to support Jericho Road’s Wellness Clinic at New Hope Center. This emergency shipment follows a $25,000 emergency grant to help sustain care after Goma’s capture by the M23 rebel group. The grant has been used to procure essential medications locally.

As the fighting intensified, Goma’s airport was closed indefinitely, and with uncertain road safety conditions, the staff at Jericho Road utilized Direct Relief’s emergency grant to procure essential medications locally.

As the airport has yet to reopen, this shipment will be flown to a nearby airport before being trucked to Goma, where clinic staff have continued providing essential services without interruption throughout the violence in Goma. Many staff members even opted to live temporarily within the clinic compound to avoid leaving their patients without services.

Direct Relief has supported the Jericho Road clinic in Goma since 2016, including a recent Mpox prevention program implemented by Jericho Road. The program provided critical education, outreach, and prevention support to large encampments of internally displaced people near Goma. Direct Relief remains committed to supporting health workers providing lifesaving care amid ongoing conflict and displacement.

Operational Snapshot

UNITED STATES

Direct Relief delivered 454 shipments containing 704,569 doses of medication during the past month to organizations, including the following:

  • Street Outreach Teams, Michigan
  • Clinica Esperanza/ Hope Clinic, Rhode Island
  • Medical Mission Adventures, California
  • Heart of Ohio Family Health Center, Ohio
  • HIV Alliance, Oregon
  • Community Care Clinic Of Dare Pharmacy – Suite B, North Carolina
  • St. Francis Free Clinic Father Carr’s Place 2B, Wisconsin
  • Riverside Health Center, West Virginia
  • Family Health Services, Idaho
  • Amistad Y Salud, Arizona

Around the World

Medical aid is staged for departure to Ukraine on April 10, 2025. (Shannon Hickerson/Direct Relief)

Globally, Direct Relief shipped over 1.8 million defined daily doses of medication totaling 38,872 lbs., to countries including the following:

  • Dominican Republic
  • Ukraine
  • Chad
  • Jamaica
  • Tunisia
  • Ghana
  • India
  • Guatemala

YEAR-TO-DATE

Since January 1, 2025, Direct Relief has delivered 8,116 shipments to 1,649 partner organizations in 54 U.S. states and territories and 71 countries. These shipments included 78.7 million defined daily doses of medication, valued at $591.1 million wholesale, totaling 1.3 million lbs.

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