Yemen’s Malaria Crisis and its Implications for the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) Countries

and Oman vision 2040.However, being in the region characterized by intricate conflicts, diverse climatic conditions, and varying development indices among its nations, GCC countries face significant challenges in ensuring health security.A pertinent example is the issue of malaria in Yemen.Since 2000, during the first two decades of the global Roll Back Malaria partnership (now known as RBM Partnership to End Malaria), worldwide malaria-related deaths halved through a combination of scaling up access to insecticidal mosquito nets or indoor residual spraying and access to effective rapid diagnostic testing and drug therapies [2].However, from 2019 on, in parallel with a dramatic escalation in conflicts and internally displaced people, the progress has stalled for a number of reasons including resistance to both insecticide and antimalarials, changes in parasite biology, and the introduction of An. stephensi.