On World Malaria Day (April 25th) Saudi officials commented in Riyadh that they intend to further assist Yemen, the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, fight off Malaria in order to ensure that the disease is completely eradicated by 2020.

Amid more reports of MERS-related in Saudi Arabia, where the virus has already claimed over 66 lives, Yemen health officials confirmed on Sunday that a man had passed away in Sana’a after having contracted the deadly viral infection.

As per explained by PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Journal, an organization which is devoted to the pathology, epidemiology, treatment, control, and prevention of the NTDs, as well as public policy relevant to this group of diseases, Schistosomiasis, which is one of the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases,

We started out the cardiac surgery in 2009 after we completed the infrastructure, equipment and supplies, with endless support of an Egyptian group that ultimately aims to support me as indigenous surgeon and my team to run the program.

Yemen is one of the low income countries with low profile of development due to enormous challenges facing the economic, political and social advancements. Social protection is one of the obstacles the government has been tackling over the last decades with minimal success.

Health system in Yemen has been facing many challenges in the last decade along with the complex emergency situation that includes widespread conflict-driven displacement and a slow-onset crisis in food security, malnutrition and outbreak of communicable diseases particularly in neglected areas.

Police sources confirmed on Saturday that the disappearance of a Dutch couple from their residence in Hadda (a southern district of the capital home to a majority of diplomats and foreign workers) is likely to be tied up to yet another kidnapping.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) launched its Access to Medicine ATM program in Yemen becoming the first international company to give affordable for Yemeni patients.

Dr Abdul Hamid Suhaibi, General Director for Yemen National Program to Fight Aids established that so far 160 new cases of AIDS had been registered for 2013, a trend which is said to be worrying health officials.

The Ministry of Public Health and Population launched on Sunday the second phase of its national campaign against schistosomiasis. The campaign will run over four days across 103 districts in the provinces of Hadhramawt, Shabwa, Abyan, al-Dale, Hodeidah, Marib and al-Baydha.

Speaking to the Media Line, a non-profit news organization, Dr. Abdul-Baqi Shamsan, professor of sociology at Sana'a University warned against the ill-effects of exchanged marriages, noting such unions were disrupting family ties and creating much anguish.

Local government Health Director, Mohammed al-Qaboss has warned Hodeida, western province of Yemen, has seen a sharp rise in malaria cases, which he attributes to deteriorating health and sanitary conditions.

H.E. Minister of Public Health and Population (MPHP) of the Republic of Yemen, Prof. Dr Ahmed Qasem Al-Ansi and the senior management of Pfizer, the world's leading pharmaceutical company, in Africa and Middle East represented by

The protection of healthcare: what does it mean in Yemen? Sanaa, March 13th 2013
Co-organized by the Ministry of Public Health and Population of Yemen and Médecins Sans Frontières

In response to the physical and verbal offences that take place in health facilities or against the medical mission and ambulances in Yemen, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is discussing this issue in a seminar in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Health and Population.

Less than a week after Yemen Donors' Conference in Yemen which sought to target and define development areas and opportunities in the impoverished nation, Health Minister Ahmed al-Ans announced a $4 million grant to fight malaria had been allocated by GFATM (Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria).

Yemen will launch next Sunday the national campaign to fight bilharzias that will cover 160 districts in 12 governorates, said Ahmed Qasim Al-Ansi, the minister of health and population, on Thursday.

Yemen Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, Faris Ahmed Mujawar, warned on Wednesday, at the 36th opening session of the Council of Governors of the International Fund for Agricultural Development - IFAD - against the knock on effects negative economic factors would have on food supplies and prices in developing nations.

Founded in 2008 by the Union International Cancer Control - UICC - to support the goals of the Wold Cancer Declaration, International Cancer Day aims essentially at raising awareness amid the population and redirect public attention toward research and better treatments for patients.

Head of the Yemen healthcare organization Jalal Saeed Al-Turjmi revealed on Monday that about 374 types of the medicines sold in the local market are smuggled.

Doctor Mohammed Rajeh, a GP - General Practitioner - based in Sana'a told the Yemen Post on Monday he was concerned over the quality of water drank by his patients in the last few months as he had noticed a large increase in cases of gallstones and kidney stones, conditions often linked to the consumption of poor quality water or hard water.

The drive to ensure access to medicine across Yemen is a vital priority in which private sector companies, governments, NGOs, international agencies and academic institutions all have a vital role to play.

Official reports have said that 60% of medications offered in Yemen are smuggled and the Yemeni people spend about $117 million on medications a year, according to the Algomohoriah newspaper.

About 25 percent of Yemen's population have liver diseases, the highest rate in the Arab states that triggers warnings of a health disaster in the poorest country in the region, the World Health Organization has revealed.

About 30 persons died of dengue fever and 1200 are infected by this epidemic in the port governorate of Hodeida and no measures were taken to reduce the cases, local sources affirmed.

A medical source in the western Yemeni poverty-hit province of al-Hodeida confirmed on Wednesday that at least 67 cases infected with the Dengue Fever were registered in the province.

An official report has indicated that tuberculosis affects about 12,000 Yemeni people a year, 1400 out of whom die and the others are treated successfully.

Yemeni Ministry of Health launched on Saturday in collaboration with the World Health Organization and UNICEF, the immunization campaign against Malaria and Polio in seven Yemeni provinces: Dhamar, Saddah, Al-Bytha, Shabwa, Aden, Lahj, and Abyan.

The Government of Yemen in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, USAID, ICRC and other partners today launched a nationwide measles campaign in the capital Sana’a, targeting all children under the age of ten – an estimated eight million. This campaign comes in the wake of an outbreak of the disease in the past few months, with over 3600 reported cases and 126 children under the age of five confirmed dead.

A newly-released Yemen study conducted in late 2011 revealed that 97 percent of Hodeidah's girls and 75,8 of Hadramout's are subject to the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).

Dr Abdel Moneim Estoppel, the Director General of the Supreme Commission for drugs and medical supplies has announced today that Yemen could be heading towards a serious pharmaceutical crisis.

Hundreds of cancer patients at the Tumor Center held a demonstration in Yemen’s capital Sana’a on Saturday to protest the persistent power outages which let them suffer more. 

By Dr Katherine Miles, For the Yemen Post

There was a buzz as 25 doctors of different levels and specialities as well as 2 dentists, acted out role-plays in small groups. Some were acting as patients, others relatives and others doctors as they practised the skills they had just learnt about how to break bad news.

The UNICEF representative in Yemen Aboudou Karimou Adjibade has said that Yemen has made a noticeable progress in areas such as education, healthcare and care of women and child.

82 percent of the population in Yemen's western province of Taiz suffered from Dengue Fever, showed a recent survey.

According to a report by the Yemeni Ministry of Public Health and Population about the progress of the epidemiological situation of H1N1 Flu in Yemen, the total cases infected by the Virus reached 4230 cases; including 1075 confirmed cases as medical reports statistics showed, while 3155 cases of contact with symptoms of the disease, stated official sources.

Yemen said on Tuesday that the total of those who have become infected with the pandemic of swine flu, commonly known as H1N1, has reached 3491 people.

The reported cases of Swine Flu A (H1N1) have reached 2070 cases and 17 dead, the official spokesman of the Yemeni government, Minister of Information Hassan Ahmed Al-Lozi stated in a press release on Tuesday.

Swine flu continues its surge in Yemen, with almost 200 confirmed cases and six fatalities reported so far. The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced the delay of the new academic year for a week.

Yemen reported on Sunday a third national had died from the swine flu as it announced 9 more infected cases, that brought the total number of the confirmed cases in the country to 155.

Ministry of Health and population announced Saturday discovery of 20 new swine flu cases bringing the total number of patients infected with this communicable virus to 89 in Yemen, official sources reported.