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24 July 2023
Press Release
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KSrelief and UNFPA sign new agreement to sustain protection services

A new US$2 million agreement signed today with KSrelief and UNFPA will provide 900,000 of the most vulnerable women and girls with gender-based... Read more

23 June 2023
Press Release
A midwife at a CERF-supported health facility in Taizz ©UNFPA Yemen

CERF supports to provide maternal health services in high food insecurity areas of Yemen

UNFPA, welcomes a contribution of US$ 900,000 from CERF to provide life-saving reproductive health services in Al Hudaydah, Hajjah and Taizz... Read more

16 June 2023
News
A midwife hands over a newborn to the mother at a KSrelief-supported health facility in south Yemen ©UNFPA Yemen

Access to functional maternal health units a lifeline for pregnant women in south Yemen

Access to maternal healthcare helps to saves lives in rural areas of south Yemen.

23 May 2023
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Fistula patients following successful surgery at Al Thawra Hospital in Sana'a, Yemen  ©UNFPA Yemen

Devastating still preventable: Obstetric fistula

A silent tragedy destroying women leaving them with lifelong morbidity and shame in Yemen.

31 March 2023
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 Aydah Mohamed takes care of newborns in the neonatal department of the UNFPA-supported Al Shaab Hospital in Aden, Yemen. ©UNFPA

After eight years of conflict and despite a fragile truce, childbirth still a matter of life and death in Yemen

DHAMAR, Yemen – “If we get some food, we first let our children eat.” Zahra, 30, is a mother of four from the village of Wusab Al Safil in Yemen’s... Read more

20 March 2023
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An new ultrasound scan machine installed at the new maternity unit ©UNFPA Yemen

New Maternal Health Unit at Bani Al Harith

A new emergency obstetric unit inaugurated at the Bani Al Harith Health Centre in Amant Al Asimah in partnership with Qatar Fund for Development.

20 March 2023
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A post-partum mother and her newborn baby at a KSrelief supported health facility in Abyan Yemen ©UNFPA Yemen

A pregnant mother's fight for survival

Hayat Ahmed Saleh, 32, was undernourished throughout her first two pregnancies and suffers from severe anaemia, a result of poor nourishment and a... Read more

16 March 2023
Press Release
A midwife attends to a newborn baby at a KSrelief-supported health facility in Taizz, Yemen ©UNFPA Yemen

KSrelief helps to sustain life-saving reproductive health services for vulnerable women in Yemen

Partnership with KSrelief helps to reach over 200,000 women and girls with lifesaving reproductive health services in south Yemen.

28 February 2023
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Case workers visit clients, monitor their welfare and refer them to services when needed. © UNFPA Yemen

Violence plagues women and girls amid Yemen’s relentless conflict

Rehman* was married off to an abusive man at age 15. “During our year of marriage, I lived a very hard life full of violence and abuse,” she recently... Read more

27 February 2023
Press Release
A displaced mother with her children attend a UNFPA-supported mobile clinic in Marib, Yemen © UNFPA Yemen

12.6 million women and girls in Yemen need life-saving support

UNFPA appeals for US$70 million as maternal death and violence against women soar

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