27 April 2021 – Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of 5 in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, 400 000 of whom are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition and could die if they do not receive urgent treatment. Three-month-old Naynoor is one of these children. Her mother brought her to a WHO-supported...

Mrs Yassmin with her malnourished daughter Arhaf at Al-Sadaqah Hospital in Aden. The hospital is supported by WHO and KSrelief. Photo: WHO/Nesma Khan 30 March 2021 – Arahaf was only aged 40 days and weighed 1.650 kg when her family, displaced from Taiz due to the ongoing fighting, brought her to Al Sadaqa Hospital in Aden.   "As we couldn't feed her...

Samer weighed only 3.3 kgs with a 10.9 cm mid upper arm circumference and suffered from medical complications. Thanks to the treatment and nutritional food he had received at Al-Modhafar therapeutic feeding centre supported by WHO and KSrelief, he recovered, and his appetite eventually improved. Photo: Humanitarian Aid and Development...

A child receives an oral cholera vaccine during the campaign. Photo: WHO 15 March 2021 – Yemen's conflict has resulted in a large-scale public health crisis, with a spiral of epidemic-prone infectious diseases, including the worst cholera outbreak ever recorded, with over 2.5 million suspected cases since October 2016. In 2020, a total of 230 540...

With the support of USAID, WHO and INTERSOS have been working together to provide urgent assistance to the population in need of primary and secondary health and nutrition services in Lahj governorate. 15 March 2021 – Driven by years of conflict, the human-made crisis in Yemen has resulted in a near collapse of an already fragile public...

Thanks to support from the Government of Japan, WHO has supported 20 diphtheria treatment centres in Yemen, including at As Sabeen Hospital in Sana'a 28 February 2021 – The humanitarian emergency in Yemen has forced the health situation into a critical state. The ongoing conflict in several areas of the country has negatively impacted the...

Humanitarian crisis continues to exert a terrible toll on children, warn FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO Sana’a/Aden/Rome/New York/Geneva, 12 February 2021 – Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of 5 in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, 4 United Nations agencies warned today. Of these, 400 000 are expected to suffer...

2 February 2021 – Children are among the most impacted by the ongoing conflict and its consequences on health care services. Thanks to Germany’s support, WHO and INTERSOS have been able to provide them with life-saving medical care. A country hammered by years of conflict, Yemen has been marked as the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe, with nearly...

Cairo, 27  January 2021 – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) have joined forces in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen through a new project to support COVID-19 preparedness and response. Under this new award, WHO will work with the Ministry of Public Health and Population to...

Sana'a, 19 January 2021 - The World Health Organization (WHO) office in Yemen denies what has been reported in local media about its intention to stop its support to Yemen's health facilities with the fuel needed to operate them. The office confirms that despite severe funding shortages, the necessary financial resources have been mobilized...