Health
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) issued a stark warning on Thursday over rising cases of measles and rubella among children in Yemen, as a vaccination campaign there faces cutbacks due to insufficient funding. more
Yemen: ‘Toxic mix’ imperils lives of under-fives with acute malnutrition

New York: Since the escalation of conflict in 2015, severe acute malnutrition is among its highest levels in Yemen, threating the lives of half of the country’s children under the a ...

Yemeni children suffer record rates of acute malnutrition, putting ‘entire generation’ at risk

New York: Yemeni children are suffering acute malnutrition at unprecedented rates as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis grinds on and funding falls far short of what is needed to ...

Yemen: Millions of children facing deadly hunger, amidst aid shortages and COVID-19

New York: Millions of children in the heart of the world’s worst humanitarian disaster could be pushed to the brink of starvation, due to huge shortfalls in humanitarian aid funding ...

Yemen's only confirmed COVID-19 case recovers

Aden/Xinhua: Yemen's Ministry of Health has announced that the first and only confirmed case of COVID-19 has recovered in the eastern province of Hadramout.

Yemen: maternal and newborn health ‘on the brink of total collapse’, UNICEF alerts

New York,June 15 (JEN): After more than four years of grinding conflict in Yemen, healthcare for mothers and their babies is “on the brink of collapse”, the UN Children’ ...

UN targets half a million Yemenis in battle-scarred Hudaydah with cholera vaccine - UNICEF

New York, Aug 7 (IBNS): Over a year after cholera broke out in Yemen, killing more than 2,000 people, the disease is back and spreading fast in the Houthi-held port city of Hudaydah; a ta ...

Fresh Yemen hospital attack raises risk of new cholera epidemic

New York: A deadly attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in Yemen in the key port city of Hudaydah has put hundreds of thousands of people at risk and damaged efforts to prevent ...

Fresh Yemen hospital attack raises risk of new cholera epidemic

New York: A deadly attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in Yemen in the key port city of Hudaydah has put hundreds of thousands of people at risk and damaged efforts to prevent ...

UN releases $9.1 million to fill 'critical healthcare gaps' in Yemen

New York, Feb 8 (JEN): With only 50 per cent of medical facilities fully functional in Yemen, the United Nations health agency is striving to fill a “critical” healthcare shor ...