Cairo, 25 March 2023 – With 8 years of protracted conflict and humanitarian crisis, over two thirds of Yemen’s population – 21.6 million people – are in acute need of humanitarian assistance, including over 20 million people requiring urgent health assistance. The country’s health system continues to fall short of meeting the population’s needs. Only...

The birth of a baby girl Houria in Qafl Shammar Hospital in Hajjah governorate while she is healthy and weighs 3 kg. Credit: INTERSOS23 March 2023 – For many Yemeni women who are pregnant, breastfeeding and displaced by conflict, hard-to-reach and struggling hospitals are still working to save their lives, and deliver new ones. When Horia, 37,...

9 March 2023 – As Yemeni women face extreme hardships linked to prolonged conflict, many are serving selflessly, under enormous pressures, at badly overstretched health facilities where millions of children and families depend on them for hope, healing and survival. According to the UN’s Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview 2023 (HNO), severe health...

Dr Mohammed Sharafulddin, AFPl surveillance coordinator in Al Mahaweet governorate, receiving and handling a stool sample.2 March 2023 – Stopping any polio outbreak starts with vaccine procurement, transport by airplanes and trucks, distribution involving complex logistics, and eventually the oral administration of the vaccine by drops in the...

Read the infographicSana’a, Yemen, 26 February 2023 – Ahead of tomorrow’sHigh-Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, the World Health Organization (WHO) together with its Health Cluster partners in Yemen is appealing for US$ 392 million to reach 12.9 million people with essential health assistance in 2023. “Yemen requires...

Heroism on the frontlines of Yemen’s fight against genetic blood disorders 12 February 2023– Rehab Fuad has survived deep poverty, chronic anemia and fatigue since being diagnosed with an inherited blood disorder – and all before reaching her first birthday. But Rehab’s suffering has made her a much stronger person today. Highly resilient and...

8 February 2023  – WHO is partnering with the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to ensure that pregnant mothers and newborns keep receiving vital and often life-saving care. The Al Mukalla Hospital is the only public hospital providing obstetrics, gynecology, newborn care services in the seaport city of Al Mukalla, Yemen’s sixth-largest city....

Sana’a, 15 January 2023 – The COVID-19 pandemic drew attention to weaknesses in critical and intensive care capacities in Yemen and other countries. To ensure hospitals are better equipped to meet these needs in the future, WHO and the authorities in Yemen, with support from the World Bank, are working hard to strengthen the health system and to...

1 February 2023 – Imagine being forced to remain at home, watching your malnourished child waste away, with no money for their transportation or treatment. This is a reality for many parents in Yemen today.  The majority of Yemeni children below age 5 are highly likely to suffer the consequences of armed conflict and lack of basic life services...

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....