Highlights:
· The Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) was launched on 19 June calling for $1.6 billion to reach a target 11.7 million people with immediate assistance. UNICEF’s revised appeal amounts to $182.5 million.
· UNICEF continues to support 22 mobile health clinics in the various affected governorates which provided integrated nutrition services covering over 150,000 people in their catchment areas.
· With UNICEF’s support, the Mahweet Governorate health office launched the first vaccination outreach activity of 2015. The campaign covered nine districts within the governorate over a five-day period, reaching 21,543 children under 1 with routine vaccinations and Vitamin A supplementation, as well as 23,285 pregnant women and 90,295 women of reproductive age, with the Tetanus vaccine.
· UNICEF continues to support affected children and communities with psychosocial support through child friendly spaces, including through sport, arts and recreational activities. Over the past two weeks, an estimated 2,169 people were reached in the Al Dhale Governorate as well as an estimated 3,913 people in Abyan Governorate with psychosocial support.
· Over 7,600 children under the age of 5 were screened for malnutrition in the governorates of Al-Jouf, Sa’ada, Hodeidah, and Hajjah, and an estimated 1,600 severely malnourished children were admitted to fixed and mobile outpatient therapeutic programmes.