Hope Through Health
Hope Through Health (HTH) is an American Boston, Massachusetts-based non-profit health care organization founded in 2004 by then Peace Corps volunteers Kevin Fiori, Jr. and Dr. Peter Davenport in partnership with a community of people living with HIV/AIDS, Association Espoir pour Demain-Lidaw. The organization aimed to provide HIV care and treatment services in Kara, Togo, West Africa where these services were not yet available. Its mission is to provide effective, efficient, community-driven healthcare in Togo.
Hope Through Health currently serves a population of 37,000 people in northern Togo and operates through nine rural clinics. Hope Through Health envisions "a world in which high quality healthcare is available to all individuals regardless of their ability to pay, thereby promoting equity and human dignity."[1] The organization was inspired by Partners In Health founder Dr. Paul Farmer.
Programs
Hope Through Health employs community health workers to provide in-home care and refer patients to clinics, while simultaneously strengthening local clinics.
Hope Through Health was founded in 2004 in response to an acute need for HIV/AIDS care and treatment in northern Togo. Hope Through Health in partnership with AED-Lidaw, initially focused on providing care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Since then its programs have expanded to include a prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) program which was launched in 2005 and replicated by the Togolese Ministry of Health in a regional public hospital in 2010.
In August 2015, Hope Through Health expanded its programs to provide more services to mothers and children. This Maternal and Child Health program is designed to address major barriers that keep women from accessing healthcare, including distance to clinics, high user fees, lack of adequate training for clinical workers, and lack of supplies at clinics.
References
- ↑ "Hope Through Health". Hope Through Health. Retrieved 2016-08-03.