27 May 2021 – The conflict, economic decline and a poor health environment have been some of the drivers of acute malnutrition in Yemen. The number of children suffering has not decreased. In comparison to 16% in 2020, acute malnutrition and severe acute malnutrition among children under 5 reached 22% in 2021. This has been the highest rate of...

1 June 2021 – This year marks the ninth anniversary of World Health Assembly resolution 65.20 (2012) in relation to the protection of health care in complex humanitarian emergencies. With deep regret, we note that violence against health care personnel and attacks on health care continues to be reported, including incidents linked to the response...

20 May 2021 – While Yemen was bearing the brunt of the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic further aggravated the crippled health infrastructure. The people of Yemen have been living through long-running armed conflict; threatened by looming famine, disease outbreaks, forced displacement and a shattered economy.  As of 30...

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...