In countries with limited access to healthcare, the mortality rates are increasing. Infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, are much more detrimental to children suffering from malnutrition and with little to no access to safe drinking water. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are most affected by these issues. In Yemen, 19.7 million people lack access to basic health services, a statistic that has fueled the rise of the COVID-19 rate of death in Yemen. This 18.97% death rate (which is the highest death rate globally) is nowhere near where it should be- zero. We urge healthcare officials and lawmakers to take these numbers seriously and bring global attention to the lack of healthcare and its consequences in Yemen.

We are a group of college students at Stony Brook University looking to make a difference within the global healthcare system. With your help, we can push for changes and hopefully these changes will reflect positively within Yemen’s citizens, government, and its healthcare systems.

Sources:

https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/mortality/World-Mortality-2017-Data-Booklet.pdf 

https://www.afro.who.int/news/covid-19-deaths-africa-surge-more-40-over-previous-week

https://www.humanium.org/en/right-to-health/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavirus-death-rates-worldwide/

https://www.usaid.gov/yemen/fact-sheets/health-fact-sheet

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/06/15/yemen-and-covid-19-the-pandemic-exacts-its-devastating-toll