By Noah Smith Hurricane Iota walloped Nicaragua last week with Category 4 winds of 155 miles per hour. The storm, which Nicaragua’s government declared the strongest ever to hit the nation, came on...
By Cydney Justman Hurricane Iota, thought to be the strongest storm ever to strike Nicaragua, slammed into the country’s Caribbean coast on Monday evening as a Category 4 hurricane. The storm made...
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, over 3 million children are being vaccinated by community health workers, or CHWs, in a polio campaign that aims to prevent a resurgence of the dangerous...
Health care providers in Honduras warn of difficult days ahead. By Noah Smith Hurricane Eta hit Nicaragua and Honduras as a Category 4 storm Tuesday, with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per...
As earthquakes rocked Puerto Rico this year, this midwife went where her patients most needed her. Now she's finding new ways to help them. By Ana Umpierre After a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked...
By Noah Smith As an orthopedic surgeon and medical chief of staff at Rand Memorial Hospital, the main hospital in Grand Bahama, Dr. Freeman Lockhart did not expect to be working in a war zone-like...
With rising Covid-19 case counts, economic troubles, a drastic increase in chronic and mental health conditions, and an outflow of doctors and nurses, Lebanon's health facilities are feeling the...
Medical aid is staged, prepped for impacted communities in U.S., Mexico. By Lara Cooper Hurricane Delta battered part of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, and the U.S. Gulf Coast is bracing...
FedEx and Direct Relief Team Up to Deliver More than $11 Million Worth of Critical Medical Resources More than 60 tons of critical aid from Direct Relief will soon offer needed relief to medical...
Health officials and NGOs are drawing on lessons learned during cholera outbreak to combat the pandemic. Haiti has at least 7,743 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and at least 187 deaths, according to the...