WHO in Yemen
Aiding Yemen’s children
21 November 2022 – Children under age five are among the most vulnerable of all Yemenis to the ravages of disease, food insecurity, unsafe water, and other ever-present threats to their survival. Summer Mansour Hussein is the mother of five children. Her youngest, Malka, is extremely fortunate to have reached her first birthday after nearly...
Quality of health care in Yemen: a matter of life and death
13 November 2022 – Over the past five years, WHO and the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP) have worked together with the World Bank’s International Development Association to prevent the collapse of Yemen’s health system. More than 70 hospitals have received needed commodities to keep serving communities even during times of...
Health workers still fighting COVID-19 in an exhausted health system
8 November 2022 – In Yemen, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a catastrophic health crisis – compounding one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, and further straining a long-exhausted health care system that is simultaneously struggling to prepare for and respond to a continuous chain of other disease outbreaks. Although the current number of...
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...









