With funding from the Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF), HUMAN ACCESS launched an integrated and sustainable assistance project to meet needs in high-risk and deprived areas in Marib and Al-Jawf governorates.

A number of people attended the event, including the Undersecretary of Marib Governorate, Abdullah Al-Bakri, the Director of Public Health and Population Office in Marib, Dr. Ahmed Al-Abadi, the Director of the Health Office in Al-Jawf, Ahmed Juzailan, and the Secretary-General of HUMAN ACCESS, Dr. Abdulwase Alwasea.

In the inauguration ceremony, 60 healthcare providers attended a six-day training course on minimum packages of healthcare services, infection prevention and control, outbreak response, and case management.

Undersecretary Al-Bakri, during the inauguration, stressed that the health situation in Marib and Al-Jawf faces significant challenges, emphasizing the importance of the project for improving the health situation and meeting the greatest number of needs of the displaced people and host community.

This project is intended to offer an integrated life-saving response, including comprehensive health services, water, sanitation, and hygiene for groups most at risk of acute watery diarrhea resulting from cholera or malnutrition in Al-Wadi District in Marib and Khab Walsha’af District in Al-Jawf.

Over the course of a full year, the project targets 39,841 individuals, including 35,688 displaced people, who are among the most vulnerable populations with acute needs and high risks of disease outbreaks and malnutrition in the two targeted districts.