Aden, March 2023 – The support of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid & Relief Centre (KSrelief) to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund has helped to reach over 200,000 of the most vulnerable women and girls with lifesaving reproductive health services in southern parts of Yemen since June 2022.  

KSrelief’s financial contribution has helped to increase access to reproductive health services for women and girls with support to 15 health facilities and 50 community midwives that has enabled pregnant women to deliver safely, while addressing other reproductive health complications such as obstetric fistula.

More than 20,000 women were able to delivery safely with the assistance of qualified health personnel, while 50,000 pregnant women received antenatal and postnatal care services in the past eight months.

“I felt like I died the moment I fainted with labour pains. When I slowly opened my eyes I thought I was opening them in heaven, but I could hear the heartbeat monitor, then I knew I had made it out alive," tells a woman after a lifesaving surgery due to a complicated pregnancy at Al Shaheed Mohammaed Ha’il Health Centre in Marib City, which is being equipped with the support of KSrelief to address such complicated pregnancies.

The partnership between KSRelief and UNFPA in Yemen since 2015 is helping to reach hundreds of thousands of women and girls with reproductive health and protection information and services.