18 August 2023 – After the conflict cast its shadow on Yemen, many families were forced to leave their areas of origin and flee to other locations for security and shelter. This was the case with Khaled's family, who fled their home in Al Hodeida to Aden for protection. Living in a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) after they left their...

15 August 2023 – While pregnant and waiting for the day she could finally hold her new child in her arms, she was faced with the devastating news of her medical diagnosis instead. Louza Saleh, from Sa’adah governorate, was pregnant with her third child when she started to feel extremely sick and lost her ability to walk. She was rushed to the...

20 July 2023, Aden | Sana’a – Quality of care is critical to improve health outcomes, patient satisfaction and cost-efficiency in health service delivery. That’s why WHO and the World Bank, via the Emergency Human Capital Project (EHCP), are collaborating with health authorities in Yemen to enhance the quality of health services using a...

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...