Highlights
The humanitarian situation in Yemen continues to worsen, particularly in the most conflict affected governorates. The health system has further deteriorated nation-wide, with an estimated 15.2 million people in need of basic health care due to the ongoing conflict and lack of fuel.
Since April, an outbreak of dengue fever is feared to have affected over 4,000 people, while measles outbreaks are being investigated.
Lack of clean water and the breakdown of sanitation systems has become a public health threat in affected communities. Some 20.4 million people require access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
During the reporting period, UNICEF supported the provision of fuel to pump water to the city of Sana’a reaching over 1 million people, as well as to the cities of Hodiedah, Dhamar, Amran and Taiz, reaching an additional 1.1 million.
In the last week, UNICEF distributed and installed 17 refrigerators in 17 health facilities to support the vaccine cold chain in Hodeidah Governorate to benefit over 52,000 children, 55,500 women of reproductive age and 16,432 pregnant women.
On 15 June, a UNICEF-supported immunization campaign was launched in Mahweet Governorate targeting over 21,500 children and 90,000 women.
During the reporting period, over 6,100 children under the age of 5 were screen for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and over 2,200 SAM children were identified and admitted to outpatient therapeutic programmes.
UNICEF Provided the Hodeidah Cleaning and Improvement Fund with over 200,000 litres of fuel, to run garbage collection trucks in the city of Hodeidah for the entire month of June.