FHI 360 has worked in Togo for more than two decades. Since 1991, we have utilized our technical expertise and local Togolese networks to enhance HIV prevention, care and treatment as well as control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
FHI 360 currently implements the Ending AIDS in West Africa (EAWA) and Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) projects. EAWA and EpiC seek to meet the 95-95-95 targets to end the AIDS epidemic, outlined by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
To accomplish this, EAWA provides tailored HIV testing, treatment and care for people living with HIV and key populations in Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso. Through close collaboration with local partners and communities, EAWA strengthens case finding and treatment linking, increases access to services, optimizes clinical management and patient follow-up, and improves the laboratory system for viral load testing.
EpiC also helps Togo achieve and maintain HIV epidemic control by focusing its efforts on previously unreached populations with a high likelihood of exposure to HIV. In addition to increasing access to prevention services, antiretroviral therapy, and viral load testing, FHI 360 supports key populations by improving treatment literacy, increasing the use of online HIV service platforms and offering differentiated health services, such as violence prevention and response. EpiC also strengthens the capacity of government, civil society and private sector partners to deploy strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery that is evidence-based, innovative and tailored to Togo’s local context and epidemiology.
In highly endemic areas and hard-to-reach communities, FHI 360 supports Togo’s efforts to sustainably control and eliminate NTDs through locally led interventions under the Act to End NTDs | West (Act | West) project. FHI 360 partners with the government to improve technical and operational capacities, such as disease surveillance, resource mobilization and cross-sectoral collaboration.
From 2012 to 2017, FHI 360 implemented the Regional HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care (PACTE-VIH) project, which addressed gaps in HIV programming for key populations, such as female sex workers and their clients and men who have sex with men. The project worked to ensure that HIV programs were evidence-based, adaptable, replicable and transferable across West Africa. In doing so, FHI 360 fostered the governmental and political will needed to successfully engage key stakeholders and advance HIV programming.
