24 February 2025 – In December 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) held in a three-day workshop in Aden to strengthen Yemen’s notification and information-sharing capacities for acute public health events in Yemen. Against the backdrop of Yemen’s protracted conflict and fragile health system, the event marked a pivotal step in bolstering the...

16 January 2025, Sana’a, Yemen – As part of WHO’s Health Emergency Appeal for 2025, the WHO country office in Yemen is appealing for US$ 57.8 million to reach 10.5 million people with life-saving emergency health assistance in 2025. “Every year of this prolonged crisis, human vulnerabilities increase, and more families, women and children are...

08 January 2025, Sana’a/Aden, Yemen – Yemen’s decade-long conflict has devastated health care infrastructure. The ability to conduct routine vaccinations, manage chronic diseases and respond to disease outbreaks has been severely compromised. As a result, preventable diseases like cholera, diphtheria, measles and dengue fever have spread rapidly...

8 December 2024, Aden, Yemen – The Ministry of Public Health and Population, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and with support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is launching a mass oral cholera vaccination (OCV) campaign. The initiative aims to administer a single dose of...

Some areas require heavy equipment to clear mosquito breeding sites. Photo credit: National Malaria Control Programme02 December 2024, Sana’a, Yemen – In early August, heavy rains caused torrential floods across many regions of Yemen, severely damaging infrastructure and inundating streets and homes. Poor sanitation has heightened the risk of...

Controlling whooping cough in Amad village, Anss district, Dhamar Governorate 2 December 2024  – In July 2024, an Electronic Integrated Disease Early Warning System (eIDEWS) coordinator in Dhamar Governorate noticed an increase in suspected whooping cough cases, with 5 reported in Amad village. An RRT was dispatched to investigate and conducted...

1 December 2024, Aden and Sana’a, Yemen – Yemen’s enduring crisis has created one of the world’s most disease-vulnerable environments, with persistent outbreaks of cholera, measles and dengue. In collaboration with the World Bank – via the International Development Association and the Pandemic Fund – WHO provides support to help Yemen detect and...

1 December 2024, Aden and Sana’a, Yemen – Hospitals provide life-saving medical care to people suffering from severe illness, injuries, complications from chronic diseases and other critical medical conditions. In Yemen, when people need health care, they often turn first to their nearest hospital. Since the start of Yemen’s protracted crisis,...

1 December 2024 Sana’a/Aden, Yemen – A single bag of blood can mean the difference between life and death. Blood banks are indispensable, especially during humanitarian crises. In Yemen, the National Blood Transfusion and Research Centre, in collaboration with the National Central Public Health Laboratory and its governorate branches, provides...

27 November 2024, Sana’a, Yemen – The World Health Organization (WHO) has signed a €3.4 million agreement with the Government of Germany to sustain lifesaving health and nutrition services in Yemen. The initiative comes at a critical time: Yemen is grappling with a protracted, grade 3 emergency – the highest level of WHO health emergency...