WHO in Yemen
WHO and KSrelief join efforts in the fight against child malnutrition in Yemen
13 April 2022 (WHO) – With support from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), the World Health Organization (WHO) has begun providing essential medicines, equipment, and training to eight high-priority hospitals in Yemen for treating severe acute malnutrition among children under the age of five. WHO will support the...
WHO and KSrelief join efforts to improve water, sanitation and hygiene services in Yemen
11 April 2022 – In response to Yemen’s historic cholera outbreak and the heightened risk of other infectious diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) have joined forces to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) at health facilities throughout the country’s southern...
Humanitarian crisis in Yemen: eight years on, WHO is strengthening the health system, responding to vital health needs, and saving lives
27 March 2022 - Since 2015, Yemen has faced a severe and complex humanitarian crisis due largely to the growing activities of armed groups, inter-community tensions, and economic decline. The Yemen crisis is also linked to additional factors such as food and nutrition insecurity, COVID-19, other disease outbreaks, climate change, and natural...
Doctors and volunteers fight malaria with nets, tests, and knowledge
22 March 2022 - The 2020 World Malaria Report estimated that 20.4 million Yemenis (65% of the total population) live in areas that are at high risk of transmission. Malaria is endemic in Hajar District, where torrential rainfall and subsequent pooling have created a fertile breeding ground for mosquitoes, cut off arterial roads to hospitals, and...
Improving health care skills to save newborn lives
Sana’a, 21 March 2022 – Millions of newborn babies globally are denied the chance to grow and thrive due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth. In Yemen, estimates suggest that a newborn baby dies every 20 minutes. To give newborns the best start in life, the health authorities in Yemen, with the support of WHO and the World Bank, are...
WHO Yemen: ensuring access to clean water in health facilities
20 March 2022- Thousands of Yemeni children and adolescents suffer from thalassemia, a genetic blood disorder that causes anemia, fatigue, stunting, and even death. The disorder is manageable with blood transfusions and iron-chelating drugs, and patients who are treated can live normal lives. But the country's ongoing conflict has severely...
Fighting to survive: saving the lives of Yemeni malnourished children
Hajjah, 1 March 2022 – Seven years of conflict in Yemen have taken a heavy toll on the population with serious humanitarian consequences. About 2.3 million children under-five-years-old in Yemen were estimated in 2021 to have acute malnutrition with 400,000 severe cases including 40,000 with medical complications. These children are fighting...
Baby Jihad makes a full recovery in two weeks in Hajjah
1 March 2022- In a household in Bani Qais, 121 kilometres west of Hajjah City, a family watched with concern as their baby daughter, Jihad, was losing weight day by day. After one week of suffering at home, Jihad’s body started to swell. Her parents suffer from extreme financial difficulties and were worried they did not have the means to get...
Baby Bushra beats the odds in Hajjah
Rataban-Mabin district, 2 March 2022 – When Bushra was eight months old, her body grew more frail by the day and she developed diarrhea and a fever for more than a week. Her mother said: “I refused to transfer her to the city, not because I don’t love my child, but because we don’t have the cost of treatment and medicine. We were watching her...
Over 3000 health workers empowered to stop infections in their tracks
The training demonstrated to health workers how to correctly put on and remove personal protective equipment Aden | Sana’a, 1 March 2022 – Over the past 2 years, communities everywhere have seen how quickly COVID-19 spreads. Even aside from the pandemic, in low- and middle-income countries, an estimated one in 10 people who are hospitalized will...