KSrelief, UK Foreign Office to Expand Cholera Response in Yemen

Riyadh, April 28, 2025, SPA -- Advisor to the Royal Court and King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Supervisor-General Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah and Minister of State for International Development at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Jenny Chapman today signed a joint statement in London. The 28 April 2025 statement pertains to a project to expand the cholera response across Yemen, benefiting 3.5 million individuals, and was signed during Al Rabeeah’s current visit to the United Kingdom.
   KSrelief will provide $5 million to the UN World Health Organization (WHO), while the British side will provide $5 million to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). The joint statement aims to formalize WHO and UNICEF support for emergency cholera response in Yemen. As part of the joint response, UNICEF and WHO will implement several interventions to reduce the spread of cholera and acute watery diarrhea in the most affected provinces of Yemen.
   KSrelief's financial support to WHO will enable the provision of key interventions for a multi-sectoral cholera outbreak response, including leadership and coordination, surveillance and laboratories, rapid response teams, case management, infection prevention and control, risk communication, community engagement and social mobilization, oral cholera vaccines, and water, sanitation, and hygiene.
   The UK ministry’s financial support to UNICEF will be directed toward water, sanitation, and hygiene, alongside health activities in the most contaminated and high-risk geographic areas. The initiative comes as part of the relief and humanitarian efforts provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through its humanitarian arm KSrelief, to support affected and vulnerable groups in Yemen and to enhance the health services provided to the Yemeni people.
   -- SPA