WHO in Yemen
Strengthening pre-hospital trauma and emergency care services in Aden, Yemen
7 November 2022 – Against the backdrop of Yemen’s long-running civil conflict and deepening humanitarian crisis, WHO is working with the Ministry of Public Health and Population and EU Humanitarian Aid to sustain and strengthen the country’s only life-saving pre-hospital trauma and emergency care services in the metropolitan area of Aden...
Saving lives with dialysis in Yemen
25 October 2022 – Thousands of Yemenis with kidney disease require dialysis treatments to keep them alive and well. WHO in partnership with KSrelief continues provisioning health facilities with dialysis equipment, supplies and financial support needed to sustain dialysis for about 3,500 patients across the country. Read the full story Arabic...
Partnering to fight COVID-19
25 October 2022 – WHO in partnership with USAID has mounted successive COVID-19 vaccination campaigns that have immunized nearly 881,000 people to date in IRG-controlled Southern and Eastern Yemen. But vaccination progress has been continually slowed by misinformed and fear-based community rumors. Only 10.7% of persons living in the 122 districts of 13...
IsDB and WHO provide sustainable life-saving medical oxygen for millions in Yemen
Yemen, 11 October 2022 — The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) inaugurated 14 oxygen stations across Yemen this week. This life-saving intervention is the epitome of health systems strengthening and improving its resiliency in Yemen and is the fruit of the strategic partnership between WHO and IsDB. The...
WHO and KSrelief partner to sustain and strengthen essential health services in Yemen
10 October 2022(Yemen) –The World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), has successfully concluded the first 2-year phase of the Essential Health Services (EHS) Project, a joint endeavour that has sustained and strengthened Yemen’s fragile health system, in collaboration...
Severely malnourished but resilient
22 September – Hunger is spreading in Yemen after many donor countries have cut back on critical humanitarian aid. At least 60,000 children are now acutely malnourished and require urgent care. One of them is Nuha, who with her mother has endured the extremes of poverty and food insecurity. Yemen’s intractable political, military, and...
Surviving hunger in Yemen
22 September 2022 – Families in Yemen who endure prolonged exposure to armed conflict and grinding poverty are forced to live on the thinnest margins of survival – especially when displaced from their homes and lacking access to food, clean water, and basic nutrition and medical services. Om Salim confronts the cruel realities of hunger every day...
Changing minds and protecting lives in Yemen
12 September 2022 - In Yemen as elsewhere, widespread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines has posed a major public health threat. With support from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), WHO has trained more than 1,100 health workers and community volunteers to communicate factual information about the vaccines –...
WHO and EU partner to provide Yemenis with emergency medical services
4 September 2022 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a 12-month project to sustain the delivery of life-saving emergency health services for the most vulnerable in conflict-affected zones across Yemen thanks to a €2.5 million contribution from the European Union. The partnership aims to directly assist more than 152,000 Yemenis,...
One child at a time, WHO and the World Bank transform the lives of millions of children exposed to a silent disease – schistosomiasis
31 August 2022, Aden, Sana’a – Schistosomiasis is an acute and chronic parasitic disease caused by infection with blood flukes (trematode worms). This disease infects vulnerable communities in Yemen exposed to infested water – putting many lives at risk, especially those of young children. Through the Emergency Health and Nutrition Project and its...