ABSTRACT
Health services in Yemen face many shortfalls at all levels of the national health system. The possibilities of achieving universal health coverage are limited by the inaccessibility of health care and financial barriers, and complicated by the inequitable distribution of health services. Yemen’s health-care system, at central and governorate levels, has introduced family health practice as an integral initiative to patient health, client satisfaction, and improved quality of care. To implement the family practice approach in Yemen during this emergency requires provision of integrated primary health-care services including maternal and child health and immunization. Yemen has adopted the primary health care approach since the early 1970s. In 2007, Yemen hosted the Family Medicine Conference for Eastern Mediterranean countries which generated the Sana’a Declaration. The voucher project is an example of a successful partnership in selected governorates of Yemen supported by interested donors.
