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PublicationsInternational Activity Report 2003Yemen
International staff: 3 MSF has been present in Yemen since 1987 After 12 years of work in Yemen, MSF finished its programs in the country in March 2003. This closure was planned as the end of MSF's 5-year commitment to the Ministry of Health, covering the period when Yemen was implementing reform of its health system. Since 1997, MSF had provided primary health care and medicines for the destitute in the southern city of Aden. This program was set up to help mitigate the effects of the government's move to a cost-recovery (paying) health service, which left many of the country's poorest unable to afford health care. In 2001, MSF rechanneled resources to support a polyclinic and four dispensaries in Little Aden, on the outskirts of the city. A special emphasis was put on improving the quality of external consultations and mother-and-child health care. |
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