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Supporting community recovery and resilience in response to COVID-19

August 23, 2021

“Without enough clean water for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene, it is difficult to maintain good health and fight off illnesses," says Mohammed Musad, a 59-year-old internally displaced person (IDP) living in an IDP camp in Dar Sad district of Aden governorate. "Without proper sanitation, water supplies can become contaminated, and diseases can spread rapidly among displaced families. Even coronavirus can spread undetected here.”

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Training midwives to save more lives

August 8, 2021

Adequate access to reproductive health services can mean the difference between life and death for mothers and their babies. As often in crisis, women and children pay the heaviest price. In war-torn Yemen, an estimated 5 million women and girls of childbearing age, and 1.7 million pregnant and breastfeeding women, have limited or no access to reproductive health services, including antenatal care, safe delivery, postnatal care and emergency obstetric and new-born care.

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Addressing the critical needs of vulnerable communities in Yemen

July 8, 2021

Yemen's humanitarian crisis remains the worst in the world. Over six years of relentless armed conflict has exacerbated the humanitarian needs across the country, with an estimated 20.7 million people requiring some form of humanitarian response or protection aid. The protracted conflict in the country has led to the internal displacement of a large part of the population. The crisis also pummeled the infrastructure and intensified the already existing vulnerabilities in the country. It has significantly deteriorated its economy.

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