Integrate Health

Integrate Health aims to make quality primary healthcare available by combining the work of professional community health workers with improved health centres. The Integrate Primary Care programme serves over 200,000 Togolese and 180,000 Guineans living in underserved rural communities. Integrate Health’s goal is to support national governments to achieve Universal Health Coverage, beginning with Togo and Guinea.

integratehealth.org | Partner since 2019

Challenge

In Togo, one in 15 children dies before their fifth birthday. Mothers are 14 times more likely to die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related medical issues than in high-income countries. In Guinea, one in 13 children does not live to the age of 5, and the maternal mortality rate is 20 times higher. The majority of these deaths are from easily preventable complications or from diseases that are treatable at low cost, like malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia.

Response

Integrate Health has created a community-led model to make quality primary healthcare available in underserved or hard-to-reach settings.

There are four key parts to its model: trained and paid community health workers actively seek out sick people in their communities and provide care free of charge; health centres and clinics are reorganised and refurbished to improve efficiency; nurses and midwives are coached to provide competent care; and pregnant women and children under five are able to access care at no cost.

Integrate Health aims to bring quality primary care to over 500,000 people in underserved communities in francophone West Africa by 2028. It will also support governments to take its proven approach to scale and reach over 2.3 million people

Key numbers

29%

lower risk of death in children under five

served by Integrate Health's programme compared with those who were not exposed to the intervention