Yemen’s heroes—the key to sustainable health outcomes Multidimensional poverty, economic deterioration, illiteracy, and security, all remnants of a prolonged conflict, have coalesced into a forgotten crisis that has gripped millions of Yemenis, who continue to suffer from the highest rates of chronic malnutrition and poor health in the world....

ADEN, June 13, 2023 – Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have jointly announced a new one-year, USD1.89 million program to more sustainably integrate COVID-19 vaccines and medical oxygen supplies into primary health care (PHC) services of Yemen. The USAID-funded program will...

Across Yemen today, around 1.3 million pregnant or nursing mothers and 2.2 million children under age five require treatment for acute malnutrition. Health literacy is a critical tool for sustaining and saving their lives, especially when they are conflict-displaced and unable to access basic necessities like food, clean water, and primary health...

1 May 2023 – In response to high levels of food insecurity and diminishing health services, WHO and UNOCHA have been working in coordination with health authorities to provide and improve dignified living conditions for the most vulnerable internally displaced persons (IDPs) in under-served IDP sites in Hudaydah, Marib, Taiz, Shabwah, Hadramout and...

23 April 2023, Sana’a – More than 21 million people in Yemen are estimated to live in areas at risk of malaria, with more than 1 million malaria cases estimated to occur every year.  To curb the huge threat to health posed by the disease, WHO recommends indoor residual spraying (IRS) and use of insecticide-treated bed nets as core vector control...

Daunting challenges to immunization efforts are disproportionately affecting the youngest children It’s not just polio. Against the backdrop of ongoing conflict, widespread malnutrition and shortages of food and medicine, one of Yemen’s fastest growing problems, is, ironically, easily solvable: multiple outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. The...

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. — WHO Constitution When diplomats met to form the United Nations in 1945, one of the earliest things they discussed was the setting up a global health organization. On 7 April 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) was born and...

Young Yemeni boyWith continued support from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), the World Health Organization (WHO) is providing essential medicines, medical supplies, equipment, and training to eight high-priority hospitals in Yemen to treat severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among children under five. Eight long years of...

30 March 2023 – The conflict in Yemen has become a largely forgotten and neglected humanitarian crisis in which two-thirds of the population – more than 20 million people – are in present need of urgent health assistance. But as this protracted conflict now enters its ninth year, there is renewed hope for eventual peace and health, for all...

28 March 2023, Aden | Sana’a – In a context of increasing restrictions on women in Yemen, WHO is advocating for gender equality and to address gender-based violence. Through the Emergency Human Capital Project (EHCP) supported by the World Bank, WHO is negotiating and succeeding in increasing the participation of female health workers in...