Health in Yemen
[8] Prior to the current conflict, Yemen's health care system was weak due to its lack of spending in public healthcare.
During the mid-2000s Yemen decided to take a market-based approach to their healthcare system due to increased liberalization within the country.
[9] However, this market based approach directly affected the poor and those living in rural areas, because of a decrease in Yemen's budget in public healthcare and use of user fees.
[9] However, in 2002 Yemen created the District Healthcare System (DHS) in order to deliver primary health care through community-based services, which in the end failed due to poor management.
It is dangerous for humanitarian workers to set foot on the ground because they could be easily killed due to the constant fighting by both parties.
[11] Many hospitals and clinics have had shortages in vaccines, medical equipment, and basic drugs due to the ongoing conflict.
Due to the high demand of healthcare services, local volunteers and medical students have been trained to respond to basic needs during emergencies.
According to a study, in the journal Globalization and Health, child mortality rates for those under five years old have increased nationally.
[15] Currently, according to WHO, Yemen is suffering the worst cholera outbreak in history with an estimated more than 10,000 cases a week in 2018.
By 2018, about two million Yemeni children suffered from acute malnutrition, as a result of the civil war consuming their nation's economy.
Abuse and the exploitation of children in Yemen has become common practice with the continuation of the civil war between the Houthi rebels and Yemeni government forces.
Cholera has broken out within Yemen because of its poor infrastructure that deteriorated due widespread war in the country.
Cholera is prominently found in contaminated drinking water, making the Yemeni people, especially children, the most prone to such a disease.
They've launched various campaigns to help combat diseases such as whooping cough, pneumonia, tetanus, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and meningitis, and they continue to send vaccines to the Yemeni people[21] As of December 4, 2018, the United States has funded approximately US$696 million in humanitarian funding for Yemen.
They've also provided extensive child health nutrition interventions in over 300 districts and have established 26 cholera treatment centers.
The World Health Organization has provided huge efforts by creating its humanitarian response plan in 2017.
[22] They created four specific objectives in providing aid: They have allocated budgets primarily towards Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and Cholera projects.
