Helping Last Mile Health Put Konobo, Liberia on the Map
In the remote rural district of Konobo, Liberia teams of frontline health workers from Last Mile Health (TH) are often up to their knees in mud. Narrow dirt paths winding through thick jungle, most of...
View ArticleHealth Survey Sets Baseline for Positive Change in Rural Liberia
In August 2012, humanitarian organization, Last Mile Health, in partnership with Direct Relief, began surveying households in Konobo District in rural Liberia to understand the regional incidence of...
View ArticleIncreasing Access to Pneumonia Treatment for Children in Liberia
With support from Direct Relief, aid organization Last Mile Health (known in Liberia as Tiyatien Health) trained 10 Frontline Health Workers (FHW) in the last year to identify, treat, and refer...
View ArticlePartner Q&A: Expanding Health Care Access in Rural Liberia
Meet Alice Johnson, who works as a clinical mentor for Direct Relief’s partner organization, Last Mile Health – a nonprofit working to deliver quality health care to people in need in rural Liberia....
View ArticleEbola Outbreak: Emergency Supplies Headed to Sierra Leone
#481844475 / gettyimages.com In response to the world’s deadliest Ebola epidemic to date, Direct Relief is sending emergency shipments of urgently requested medicines and supplies to its partner...
View ArticleEbola Outbreak: Direct Relief Responds in West Africa
Update: Last month, Direct Relief equipped Dr. John Fankhauser with provisions of Ebola-specific medical supplies in preparation for his return to the frontlines of the outbreak. Since then, the deadly...
View ArticleEbola: Critical Supplies Headed to Liberia as Health Workers Fear Infection
Another shipment of life-saving supplies is on the way to Liberia as doctors on the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak report a severe shortage of the most needed items as they work to contain the...
View ArticleEbola Outbreak: Direct Relief Teams Up with Airlink, Four Nonprofits to Fill...
ATX Air Services, LLC contributes plane, crew to fly aid to Liberia Fort Worth, TEXAS, Aug. 25, 2014 - In collaboration with Airlink and Fort Worth-based ATX Air Services, LLC, Direct Relief today...
View ArticleEbola Response: Humanitarian Charter 747 Brings 100 Tons of Medical Aid to...
New York, New York, Sept. 20, 2014 – A Direct Relief-chartered Boeing 747 departed John F. Kennedy International Airport today with 100 tons of emergency medical assistance for communities gripped by...
View ArticleTwelfth Shipment of Life-Saving Ebola Aid Arrives in Liberia
Direct Relief’s twelfth emergency shipment of life-saving medicines and supplies to Ebola-hit regions arrived today in Liberia, destined for health workers and patients at ELWA Hospital and Last Mile...
View Article6 Month Update: Response to the World’s Deadliest Ebola Epidemic
With your support, over the past six months Direct Relief provided over $6.98 million in total aid to ensure medical responders in West Africa have the medicines and supplies they need as they work to...
View ArticleEbola Threatens Childhood Pneumonia Treatment in Liberia
The West Africa Ebola epidemic has killed 5,160 people, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. However, what isn’t reported is the number of people who have died of preventable and...
View ArticleMore Ebola Aid Bound for Liberia and Sierra Leone
Another wave of aid supplies to help save lives in areas affected by the Ebola crisis left Direct Relief’s headquarters this week, bound for Sierra Leone and Liberia. The shipments – valued at $4.8...
View ArticleFirst Ebola Treatment Unit for Local Health Workers Arrives in Sierra Leone
View image | gettyimages.com Direct Relief delivers two 10-bed medical tents specifically for local health staff in Sierra Leone SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 23, 2014 – In response to urgent requests...
View Article747 Jets to West Africa as Ebola Response Pivots toward Recovery
Direct Relief Delivers 83 Health Facility Supply Modules, Prescription Medicines to Help Revitalize Ebola-Affected Health Facilities SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2015 – A Direct Relief-chartered...
View ArticleFrom the Field: Providing Care in Liberia’s Most Remote Villages
A team from Direct Relief is traveling through West Africa to better understand the needs of health care partners and formulate long-term strategies for strengthening health systems devastated by the...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of Community Health Workers
Celebrating World Health Worker Week (April 5 -11, 2015), a new story map from Esri, The Earth Institute at Columbia, and Direct Relief, aims to raise support and awareness for the life changing...
View ArticleA Kit for Every Midwife: International Confederation of Midwives Endorses...
The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) has provided its first-ever formal endorsement of a Midwife Kit as a standard for midwives trained […] The post A Kit for Every Midwife: International...
View ArticleLast Mile Health: Midwife Kits Reach Twenty Clinics in Liberia
In the past two months, Last Mile Health delivered twenty-four Midwife Kits to certified midwives working in twenty facilities across Grand Gedeh County, […] The post Last Mile Health: Midwife Kits...
View ArticleZarway, a Midwife Success Story from Last Mile Health
Even before becoming a Certified Midwife, Zarway was an advocate for justice, peace, and healing in her community. Trained in counseling as part […] The post Zarway, a Midwife Success Story from Last...
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