The World Health Organization (WHO) has signed a €3.4 million agreement with the Government of Germany to sustain lifesaving health and nutrition services in Yemen. The initiative comes at a critical time: Yemen is grappling with a protracted, grade 3 emergency – the highest level of WHO health emergency response.

Yemen faces multiple and parallel outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, including circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), acute watery diarrhoea and cholera, measles, diphtheria, malaria and dengue fever. Between the outbreak of cholera in March 2024 and the end of September 2024, Yemen reported 204 000 suspected cases and 710 deaths. Since the beginning of the year, 33 000 suspected measles cases have been reported, with 280 associated deaths.