The World Food Program (WFP) announced the partial resumption of the malnutrition prevention program after a 6-month hiatus due to limited funding.

The program said in a recent report, issued on Sunday, that it had partially resumed the acute malnutrition prevention program last July in 12 districts in three governorates, under an allocation of 5 million US dollars from the Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF). ).

The report added that the new allocation will enable the program to provide moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) treatment for a total of 103.2 thousand children and pregnant and lactating women from the PBWG group in the three districts until the end of this year.

The "World Food" indicated that, after resuming the program, last July, it was able to help 15,000 pregnant women and children, and it also helped, in the same period, 629,200 others out of 671,300 people targeted in the program to treat moderate acute malnutrition.

The report warned that 2.4 million people suffer from malnutrition. Most of them are children and women, who are still affected by the suspension of the malnutrition prevention program, due to lack of funding, which leaves them at risk of malnutrition complications.

The World Food Program announced the suspension of the program to prevent acute malnutrition in Yemen beginning last January, due to a severe lack of funding.