YeMed

Lacking access to basic services (such as food, clean water and shelter) because of insecurities and restrictions, children are dying from treatable and preventable illnesses.

 

Pushed to the verge of famine, war-torn Yemen has more than 60% of its population considered “food insecure”, with women and children mostly affected. In fact, about 3.3 million nursing women and children are severely malnourished, according to the 2017 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan. Conflict and poverty intensified child malnutrition and Yemen’s children famish as war persists, due to the shortage of food, the spread of disease, the lack of health care and the lack of hygiene. Reports show that more than 462,000 children under the age of five face severe acute malnutrition. Often, those children are caught in the worst cholera-hit areas of Yemen.