Yemen: Joint cholera response plan - July 2017

Yemen is in the grip of a fast spreading cholera outbreak of unprecedented scale. This plan presents an integrated response to the significant upsurge of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD)/suspected cholera cases1 across the country, since 27 April. Consequently, as of 28 June, a total of 254,871 suspected cases, with 1,439 associated deaths (0.6% CFR) were reported from 286 districts (20 Governorates). On 14 May, the MoHP declared a state of emergency stating that the health system is unable to contain this unprecedented health and environmental disaster. An additional, 280,358 cases are projected from the high risk districts in the coming six months till end of 2017.

The plan outlines emergency health, WASH and communications interventions to contain and prevent further spread of the outbreak in the 286 high risk districts, where suspected cholera cases were reported during the period October 2016 to June 2017 (see Annex 1 for details). Health and WASH clusters will continually identify priority districts from high risk districts, by considering the number of cases and attack rate.