The Nutrition Bloc in Yemen, in partnership with the United Nations Children's Organization (UNICEF), made an urgent appeal to international donors to provide flexible financing of $ 91.1 million, with the aim of continuing to provide treatment and preventive nutrition services for about 1.9 million children under the age of five and a pregnant woman or breastfeeding woman suffering from severe malnutrition throughout the country during 2025.

The bloc said, in a report issued on Saturday, that this financing is necessary to maintain the ability of humanitarian partners to deliver basic supplies, cover operating costs, support health workers, ensure the continuation of primary nutrition services, health care and immunization in more than 3,200 health facilities and 75 high priority areas suffering from severe severe malnutrition.

The report indicated that the continued decline in financing humanitarian operations directly threatens the ability of the health system to carry out examinations, diagnosis, referral and treatment, which endangers the lives of thousands of children and women at risk and increases the possibility of deaths that could have been avoided.

The Nutrition Bloc warned that therapeutic nutrition centers are among the most affected by the lack of funding, noting that until last May, services were stopped or reduced in 91 districts in 16 governorates, while 22 therapeutic centers were delivered to local authorities without providing operational support or incentives necessary for medical cadres.

The report also pointed out that 385 therapeutic programs for external patients in 67 districts, in addition to 2,212 supplementary nutrition programs in 201 districts in 18 governorates, are facing the fate of closing or commenting due to the scarcity of financing.

The report concluded with the warning that these financing gaps are not only threatened with undermining opportunities to reach children and women in remote and at risk areas, but also threatening to decline in great gains that have been achieved in the past years in the field of fighting malnutrition and saving lives.