31 January 2023–Yemen’s economy and health systems rank among the least developed in the world. Overstretched health facilities struggle to provide even the most basic services to the country’s 34.24 million people. For most vulnerable Yemeni households, daily survival can be reduced to a desperate choice between needed medicines or a next meal.
Free medicines and healthcare services are prerequisites for many Yemenis to embark on often arduous journeys to hard-to-reach health facilities. This constitutes a dire predicament driven by the context of Yemen’s ongoing armed conflict and complex human crisis – considered today to be among the world’s worst.