Country: Yemen Source: World Health Organization 3 June 2026, Aden, Yemen – For families living in Yemen’s displacement camps, illness can mean incurring costs they cannot afford. Reaching a health center can involve difficult journeys, particularly during emergencies. Many internally displaced families face an impossible choice between seeking care and meeting daily needs. In Al-Shaab camp in Aden, where many displaced families live in difficult conditions, health challenges are part of daily life. Overcrowding, poor environmental conditions and limited access to services increase the risks of malaria and other vector-borne diseases, especially for women and children. For 21-year-old Abeer Abdulwarith Mohammed Saeed, the challenges are all too familiar. ‘Sometimes, at night, a child suddenly gets a fever, diarrhoea or vomiting, and there are no emergency services available for us,’ she said. ‘If I, my husband or my children get sick, we cannot get treatment because of our limited means.’ To respond to increasing malaria risks among displaced communities, the World Health Organization (WHO), in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health and Population and with the fund from Saudi Arabia through King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centrethe King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), is deploying mobile malaria teams to internally displaced persons camps in Aden and Marib under the KSrelief-supported Strengthening Malaria Prevention and Control in Yemen – Phase 2 project. The initiative brings health care services directly to communities that would otherwise face challenges accessing health facilities. Instead of expecting vulnerable families to travel long distances, mobile teams visit camps and provide consultations, early diagnosis and treatment, referral of severe cases, mosquito surveillance and control and health awareness activities. ‘The teams are implementing a strategy, through mobile clinics that move across camps, to detect and diagnose cases early, especially in areas that are far from health services,’ explained Dr Niyaz Abdu Saeed, Director of Malaria Case Management at the National Malaria and vector control Programme. The teams include doctors trained in malaria and dengue case management, laboratory technicians, vector surveillance teams and health education specialists who work together to ensure communities receive integrated support. For Abeer and her family, the mobile team’s visit brought reassurance. ‘The medical team helped us today with malaria and dengue tests for me and my children,’ she said. ‘We waited for the results and thank God, there was no malaria. We are healthy.’ Another displaced resident, Fawzia Salem Abkar Al-Bahreen, described the daily reality facing many families living in the camp. ‘Even if you have money, it is often not enough for tests or treatment. If you do not have money, you stay at home and endure the illness,’ she explained. ‘The team’s arrival makes a big difference for people who have no other way to access treatment.’