International Health Partners

Yemen

80% of the population cannot access food, safe drinking water and adequate healthcare services
20 million people cannot access healthcare
71 - 78% of people live in poverty in Yemen
4.5 million people are reported to be internally displaced

What is happening in Yemen?

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Yemen has been in the midst of a multilateral civil war over the leadership of the nation’s government since 2015. Since the start of the civil conflict, Yemen’s economy has been decimated, critical infrastructure has been destroyed and serious food insecurity has been created. The low value of the Yemeni riyal raises the price of food and pushes ever more people into extreme poverty making healthcare out of reach for millions. The humanitarian situation in Yemen is one of the biggest of our time, yet it rarely makes headlines.

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What is the health situation?

Yemen is currently suffering from what has been described by the United Nations and others, as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. In 2017, it endured the largest cholera outbreak of modern times, with more than one million suspected cases in less than a year.

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Malnourishment and food insecurity are both major issues, with two out of every three Yemenis not knowing where their next meal is going to come from and one in four Yemenis suffering from malnourishment. This leaves a huge proportion of the population vulnerable to disease and seriously risks the development of children.

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Only 51% of health facilities in Yemen are fully functioning, while 49% are only partially operating or entirely out of service. The ongoing conflict – with its distressing stories of the destruction of homes, loss of lives, youth disabled, displacement and economic deterioration, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, cholera and other outbreaks, and recurrent natural disasters – has taken an enormous toll on people's resilience and their mental health.

See how your donation makes a difference

£5 can help us to give 15 people treatment

£20 will provide 16 children with antibiotics

£100 will provide 83 pregnant women with life saving medicine.

£450 will provide am emergency medical kit to 60 families.

Whatever you give, you could be making a life-changing, even life-saving difference to someone every month.

See how your donation makes a difference

£5 is enough to source and send £600 worth of medical supplies a year to people in need; enough to help approximately 50 people around the world.

£10 is enough to source and send £1,200 worth of medical supplies a year to people in need; enough to help approximately 100 people around the world.

£25 is enough to provide around 750 treatments in a year, helping approximately 250 people in need; and for some, is the difference between life & death.

£100 is enough to provide medicines and supplies for approximately 1,000 people a year living in disaster-hit and vulnerable communites.

Whatever you give, you could be making a life-changing, even life-saving difference to someone every month.

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What is IHP doing to help?

The situation in Yemen is undoubtably grave, but together we can support this struggling nation. IHP works with its in-country partner to make a real difference. We are shipping medicine and health supplies to equip local health facilities so that they can tackle child and maternal malnourishment and ensure pharmacy shelves are stocked with medicine and distributed to patients free of charge.

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