Cairo, 18 January 2021 – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) are continuing their joint fight against child malnutrition in Yemen by sustaining essential nutrition services and enhancing access to life-saving interventions for the most vulnerable populations. Funded at US$ 5.5...

Cairo, 5 January 2021- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) are working together to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in targeted health facilities and water quality monitoring and surveillance in cholera high-risk districts. Through a new US$ 7 million award, a...

Sana'a, 21 December 2020 - The World Health Organization country office in Yemen denies what has been reported in local Yemeni media about the Organization's refusal to transfer abroad for treatment siamese twins that are currently being treated in a hospital in Sana'a. The office calls on all media to be responsible, credible and accurate when...

Cairo, 14 December 2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) have started the implementation of a new project to support the delivery of essential health services in Yemen. Funded at US$ 20.5 million, the project is part of a broader US$ 46 million agreement between the two...

Jeddah/Geneva, 12 October 2020 – The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have joined forces with Yemen’s Ministries of Health and Population and Planning and International Cooperation to provide emergency support to assist the country respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Built on Yemen’s national strategy to...

Sana’a, 4 October 2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) Representative for Yemen Mr Altaf Musani, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen Ms Lise Grande, and UN Special Envoy for Yemen Mr Martin Griffiths welcomed the return today of patients who have been receiving medical care in Jordan for diseases and conditions which cannot be treated in...

Cairo/Riyadh, 20 September 2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) have renewed their partnership to continue sustaining the health system throughout Yemen.  The agreement, funded at US$ 46 million, includes support to essential health services, COVID-19 preparedness and response...

Maryam and Jamila receive treatment at a WHO-supported oncology centre in Aden 20 September 2020 – The pain of cancer patients in Yemen is being compounded by the additional burden of conflict, displacement, widespread poverty and hunger. Jamila, a 40-year-old woman, is currently displaced due to the ongoing conflict. To add insult to injury, she...

14 September 2020 – A dengue fever control campaign that will cover the 8 districts of Aden city was launched on 13 September by the Ministry of Public Health and Population, with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief).  The 4-day campaign will include indoor and outdoor...

6 September 2020 – Fourteen cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) have been detected in several districts in Saada governorate, in the north-west of Yemen. The cases – children aged from 8 to 156 months – had onset of paralysis ranging from 31 January to 18 June 2020, with one other case from June 2019 also confirmed...