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Yemen Humanitarian Situation Report March 2022

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  • UNICEF Yemen has a funding gap of $393.8 million required to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen in 2022.
  • The number of people requiring humanitarian assistance has increased from 20.7 million in 2021 to 23.4 million in 2022.  Of these, 55 per cent are children.
  • 17.4 million people need food assistance. This figure is expected to increase to 19 million between June 2022 and the end of the year.
  • Since the beginning of the year, a total of 965,058 children under five (479,223 male, 485,835 female) have been screened for malnutrition.
  • In March, UNICEF delivered 2,909,000 doses of trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to 2,357,414 children under the age of 10, reaching 96 per cent of the target within 12 southern governorates.
 UNICEF Yemen Humanitarian Situation Report March 2022