When Deana Youngblood returned from a trip to South Carolina in 2025, she was coughing up something dark and struggling to breathe. She had no health insurance and nowhere obvious to turn, so she called Wheeling Health Right , the only free clinic in West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle.

By the next day, Youngblood had received a chest X-ray, an antibiotic and a donated inhaler to manage her COPD, treatment she otherwise could not afford.

“What would be my workaround without Health Right?” Youngblood said. “I honestly don’t know.”

The inhaler Youngblood received was donated by Direct Relief through a partnership with Teva. Since 2008, Direct Relief has made 251,471 deliveries of donated medicines and medical supplies, with a cumulative wholesale value of $3.1 billion, to nonprofit health providers in all 50 states and multiple U.S. territories.

More than $1 billion of that aid has been delivered since June 2023.…