almotamar.net - Public Health Undersecretary Dr Arwa Al-Rabie on Monday said the rates of population increase in Yemen, according to latest studies, reached at 3.1 and fertility rates at 6.2%, both of which represent dangerous rates in the world.
Dr al-Rabie has made it clear that the ministry managed to cover health services with means of family planning by 85% after issuing a decision of free health services concerning family planning and reproductive health.
In the workshop on announcement of results of field survey in knowledge, direction and practice of means of family planning and AIDS organised by the health ministry in cooperation with the international organisation Marie Stopes, Dr al-Rabie praised the organisation's and other organisations' efforts in raising the standard of health services and ways of family planning and reproductive health, she added that the ministry is working for generalization of health services and raising the level of awareness as well as targeting the remote areas and the countryside so that covering health services to include all yeomen areas.
Representative of Marie Stopes Organisation in Yemen said the results of a field survey on direction and practice of men and women in Yemen on family planning and AIDS revealed that 96% of unmarried women in the countryside are aware of family planning and 90% support the use of means for family planning and that would help bring up children and educate them and preserve their health.
The Director of the Project of Social Marketing of Means of Family Planning Dr Ashraf Badr reviewed the results revealed in the survey.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.
90% of Yemen's rural population supports family planning
