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<p>The UK provided £240 million in aid to Yemen in the financial year (19/20) through
UN and NGO humanitarian and development partners, delivering a range of interventions.
This included providing on average 500,000 Yemenis each month with cash transfers
and vouchers through the World Food Programme.</p><p>DFID funding to UNICEF screened
over 400,000 children for severe acute malnutrition and enrolled 45,000 children in
nutrition programmes following screening. Through DFID funded NGOs, including CARE
and ACTED, we treated a further 8,000 children and pregnant women for acute malnutrition,</p><p>UK
aid helped provide over 1 million people with access to clean drinking water and sanitation
and over 1.5 million with an emergency water supply. The UK also contributed 25% of
the costs of Oral Cholera Vaccination campaigns in 2019, which have helped to vaccinate
more than 2 million Yemenis since they began in 2018.</p>
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