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Acute food insecurity threatens child survival across Yemen
Young Yemeni boyWith continued support from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), the World Health Organization (WHO) is providing essential medicines, medical supplies, equipment, and training to eight high-priority hospitals in Yemen to treat severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among children under five. Eight long years of...
Eight years and counting: achieving peace through health in conflict-ravaged Yemen
30 March 2023 – The conflict in Yemen has become a largely forgotten and neglected humanitarian crisis in which two-thirds of the population – more than 20 million people – are in present need of urgent health assistance. But as this protracted conflict now enters its ninth year, there is renewed hope for eventual peace and health, for all...
WHO advocacy to empower female health workers in Yemen
28 March 2023, Aden | Sana’a – In a context of increasing restrictions on women in Yemen, WHO is advocating for gender equality and to address gender-based violence. Through the Emergency Human Capital Project (EHCP) supported by the World Bank, WHO is negotiating and succeeding in increasing the participation of female health workers in...
Eight years of prolonged conflict in Yemen leave over 20 million people in need of urgent health assistance
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...
Bravery and resilience in the face of adversity
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,...
The heroic efforts of Yemen’s healthcare workers: selflessly serving to advance health for all
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...
For Yemen’s children, the path to a polio diagnosis starts with a remarkable road trip
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...
Yemen’s health crisis: WHO calls for increased funding to save millions of Yemenis
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...
Strength from suffering
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...
Keeping the doors open at Yemen’s Al Mukalla Hospital
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....
