Too many women and children die early in neglected communities. In Togo, 1 in 10 children die before his or her fifth birthday, and 368 women die per 100,000 live births. The majority of these deaths are completely avoidable but Togo lacks the functioning healthcare system required to deliver effective care to its citizens. Geographic barriers, high costs, poor quality of care, and a lack of supplies and equipment contribute to low healthcare utilization and high mortality rates. It is against this backdrop that Togo set a goal to reduce child mortality by 33% by 2022.
To help expedite this, FAH, in partnership with other organizations
- Worked with the Togolese government to launch the user fee elimination program for maternal healthcare services, ‘Wezou’ in August 2021. The Wezou initiative aims to increase access to healthcare for women by eliminating the cost of care, a key barrier
- Worked with the Togolese government to evaluate existing community health models in the country, with a view to selecting the most optimal model. In order to help the Government of Togo in its analysis, the FAH conducted on-ground evaluations of existing models, benchmarked against global case studies covering five countries and developed a foundational costing analysis of the Community Health Strategy, 2022-2025. As community health systems have been shown to extend the reach of the health system to the last mile.