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UN Women This article tells personal stories of Yemeni women facing compounded challenges due to COVID-19 and reports on certain measures taken by UN Women to prioritize and integrate women’s and girls’ needs into the national COVID-19 crisis response plan. Article
Read MoreFrontiers in Public Health This article assesses the current state of preparedness and capabilities of healthcare facilities in Yemen to prevent and manage the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal Article
Read MoreDisaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness This letter to the Journal Editor touches upon the COVID-19 situation in Yemen and strategies to control the outbreak. Journal Article
Read MoreBMJ This article shows that mortality due to COVID-19 in Yemen is five times the global average all while recognizing the de facto underreporting of deaths due to the conflict and the weak healthcare infrastructure. Article
Read MoreMed Global This report on Yemen explains how COVID-19 is exacerbating what was already the world’s worst humanitarian crisis with an already weak health system that has been destroyed by five years of conflict. Report
Read MoreCenter on International Cooperation This report addresses the factors that worsen Yemen’s experience with the COVID-19 pandemic including the conflict, poor governance, corruption, food insecurity, poverty, disease, and climate shocks. Report
Read MoreInternational Journal for Equity in Health This article reports on the effects of COVID-19 on exacerbating the economic and humanitarian crises in Yemen. Journal Article
Read MoreBBC News This article reports on the reasons that might increase the spread of COVID-19 in war-torn Yemen. Article
Read MoreBrookings Education This article reports on the COVID-19 situation in Yemen, including death tolls and displacements, that has exacerbated different humanitarian crises such as the civil war that caused the country to be divided despite calls for ceasefires. Article
Read MorePublic Health in Practice This article highlights the calamitous impact of withdrawing and decreasing support to humanitarian operations and primary health care (PHC) in Yemen in the context of COVID-19 and conflict. Journal Article
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