EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Yemen crisis remains one of the largest and most complex crises globally, and it is far from over. More than eight years of instability, an economy on the verge of collapse, funding shortfalls, and the COVID-19 pandemic have converged to place lives at risk, with women and girls continuing to bear the brunt of these challenges. In addition, Yemen has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the Arab States region. UNFPA's response provides reproductive health services to thousands of women and girls in health facilities supported across Yemen to provide emergency obstetric care and essential reproductive health supplies. UNFPA is also the sole provider of lifesaving reproductive health medicines in Yemen.
Maternal and newborn health services (RH) project is one of the most important humanitarian response projects, which aimed to meet people’s needs, access to available maternal health and family planning services with a focus on underserved areas and humanitarian emergencies in targeted sites increased, ensure safe motherhood and avert morbidities, and maternal and newborn mortalities. In addition, the readiness of the health facilities is essential to provide all the basic and comprehensive functions to ensure emergency services in the targeted facilities. DEEM funded by UNFPA has started implementing providing maternal and newborn health services (RH) for conflict-affected areas project since January 2019. In 2021, Deem for Development Organization implemented RH project within 14 HFs (4 CEmONC and 10 BEmONC HFs) in Taiz governorate. In 2022, Deem for Development Organization implemented RH project within 10 HFs (2 CEmONC and 8 BEmONC HFs) in Taiz governorate.
The current maternal and newborn health services (RH) project is based on meeting unmet reproductive health and emergency obstetric care needs in the targeted districts, Taiz Gov, as these districts are hosting displaced and conflict-affected people. In order to reduce maternal mortality, Emergency Obstetric Newborn Care (EmONC) must be available and accessible to all women. While all aspects of reproductive health care include family planning and delivery services with the help of skilled health professionals and health workers who also play important role in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality.
This annual report (2023) summarizes the implemented maternal and newborn health (RH) activities in the targeted governorates Taiz and Al Hudaydah from January to December 2023, that DEEM has accomplished in partnership with UNFPA to support and deliver reproductive health services. In 2023, the total number of BNFs who received reproductive health services in targeted HFs reached 251,207 (20,188 of them have received antenatal care (ANC), 7,530 received delivery services, including 5,706 received natal care for normal deliveries and 823 for cesarean section, 5,223 received postnatal care services (PNC), 11,196 family planning services (FP), and 207,070 received MNHS-RH consultations).