Togo

Access to diagnosis

RESAOLAB

Togo is one of the 7 country members of the West African Network of clinical laboratories (RESAOLAB) created by the Mérieux Foundation and the Ministries of Health of the participating countries. As part of this network, it participates annually in training, laboratory supervision, quality assurance and external quality assessment activities.

In accordance with RESAOLAB’s objectives to provide member countries with laboratory management structures,  Togo has reinforced its Laboratory Division, under the Health and Social Protection Ministry. It was provided  with infrastructure and equipment, with the Continuing Education and External Quality Assessment Units, within the new building of the Directorate of Pharmacy, Medicines and Laboratories inaugurated in 2017.

We also provided 15 public medical biology laboratories with IT equipment for the use of Labbook, and renovated the practical work rooms of the Advanced School of Biological and Food Technology and the Faculty of Health Sciences.

REDISSE

Togo has benefited from our support as part of our regional mandate on the REDISSE project (Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement) to improve disease surveillance system. Funded by the World Bank through the West African Health Organization, we reinforced 7 health district laboratories’ capacities , in order to :

• Bolster the laboratory diagnosis and confirmation skills of laboratory managers
• Improve epidemiological surveillance and the response capacity of district laboratories

With the Centre for International Cooperation in Health and Development (CCISD), we were mandated to reinforce health districts’ integrated disease surveillance capacities.

Enhancing research capabilities

DREPATEST

In Togo, we carry out the DREPATEST project which goal is to study the diagnosis performances and feasibility of the Sickle-cell anemia rapid diagnostic test in 6-month-old infants in Lomé, Bamako (Mali) and Kinshasa (DRC).

OASIS

We also support the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Togo and the laboratory of the  Campus University Hospital of Lomé, in the framework of the implementation of the OASIS project (One Health AMR Surveillance through Innovative Sampling) funded through the JPIAMR (Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance) platform which aims to develop a surveillance strategy to fight AMR in a One Health context.