HOPE THR O U G H H E A LT H
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Hope Through Health
Progress Report Q3 2013, Page 1
Dear Friends,
Another year has begun and the work of Hope Through Health, and our partner organization
AED-Lidaw, continues. Our team has been focused on clinical quality improvements,
enhanced data collection systems and improved supervision of our Community Health
Workers. As a learning organization, we are always looking for ways to improve upon our
past performance and better serve our patients. Thanks to your ongoing support, we are
able to continually improve the scope and quality of care we provide to patients throughout
the neglected northern Kara Region of Togo.
Highlights from the first quarter of 2014 include:
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Hope Through Health launched a new website! Please take a look and let us know
what you think: http://hthglobal.org/
Hope Through Health’s 2013 Annual Report was released. Discover the impact your
support had on our work in 2013 here: http://bit.ly/HTH2013AnnualReport
Six students from our partner organization, GlobeMed at MIT, spent six weeks in Togo
working on three important technology projects alongside AED staff. You can read a
summary of their work here: http://globemed.mit.edu/category/iap2014grow/
The NYC Fête de Charité held on January 23rd was a great success raising over
$29,000 for Hope Through Health. Thank you to all who attended and supported this
incredible event!
Hope Through Health received grants from Catapult: Women Deliver and Rotary Club
of South Everett/Mukilteo, WA to support our Community Health Worker and Orphan
and Vulnerable Children Programs.
As with all of our efforts, we welcome your feedback. Please reach out to me or any member
of our team with your questions and suggestions. We would love to hear from you and
continue this dialogue about the transformative impact your support has on improving the
health and lives of individuals and communities in Togo.
With gratitude,
Jennifer Schechter, Executive Director
e | [email protected]
c | 631.721.5917
Hope Through Health
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ABOUT US
MISSION
Hope Through Health delivers effective, efficient, community-driven healthhealthcarecare in
the neglected nation of Togo.
VISION
Hope Through Health envisions a world in which high quality healthcarehealthcare is
available to all individuals regardless of their ability to pay thereby promoting equity and
human dignity.
VALUES
HOPE | HTH believes that better health outcomes are possible even when there is some evidence to the
contrary.
HEALTH | HTH believes that health is more than the absence of disease or infection but includes the
promotion of social, economic, educational and spiritual wellbeing.
EQUITY | HTH believes in working to address the root causes of social and economic injustice to ensure
that all individuals have an equal right to live healthy and productive lives.
SOLIDARITY | HTH believes in working alongside and in collaboration with the people we serve to
ensure responsiveness to their specific needs.
COMMITMENT | HTH believes in making long-term investments to address global health inequities and
bring about greater justice.
OPERATING PRINCIPLES
PARTNERSHIP | Establishing long-term relationships with local governments and communities
in which all parties have an equal voice.
HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING | Strengthening the capacity of the public sector to effectively
scale up quality healthcare services.
COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING | Supporting local groups engaged in improving the health of their
own communities through medical, psychological and/or educational activities.
ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE | Eliminating barriers in order to improve access to quality healthcare for all.
GENDER-BASED PROGRAMMING | Prioritizing services for women and children as the most effective
means to strengthening entire communities.
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE | Implementing medical and public health interventions through
decision-making based on the best available evidence and information.
MOVEMENT BUILDING | Fostering engagement and building connections across the globe in order to
combine efforts into a larger movement for social justice.
Hope Through Health
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SELECTED INDICATORS
Hope Through Health employs a dynamic Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality Improvement dashboard,
designed with the help of Partners In Health, to enable our team to easily analyze data and make
program improvements in real time. Here are a selection of indicators from the dashboard.
Highlights:
- Targeted efforts to extend HIV
testing to vulnerable populations
resulted in a significant increase in the
number of people tested for HIV over
the past three months. Specific
testing campaigns were carried out
for World AIDS Day, for the gay
community, on military bases, and in
local prisons.
Infants who test positive for
HIV
Q1 2013
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1 2014
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
- A 100% success rate continued with
five new babies testing HIV-free.
- A strengthened Community Health
Worker program has resulted in
increased referrals to clinic-based
counselors for psychosocial support
services.
Challenges:
- Difficulties collecting reliable ART adherence data from our satellite sites continue. These
efforts require close collaboration with our Ministry of Health partners in order to
strengthen the ART distribution and monitoring systems at the public sector clinics with
which we work. We will continue to focus on improving these essential systems.
Hope Through Health
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT:
PEDIATRIC HIV
In Togo, over 19,000 children are living with
HIV and more than 89,000 children have
been orphaned by the disease. With only 4
physicians and 19 nurses per 100,000
people, Togo’s public health system is illequipped to adequately serve the needs of
the country’s population, especially those
living with HIV. The lack of accessible
medical, psychosocial, nutritional, and
educational programs means that children
living with HIV/AIDS are simply not getting
the care they desperately need.
In response, Hope Through Health
developed the Pediatric HIV Treatment
program to treat children in the northern
Kara region of Togo. The program’s threepronged approach focuses on:
1. Providing early testing and treatment for
children,
2. Ensuring adherence to life saving
antiretroviral therapy (ART), and
3. Providing vital wraparound services to
improve survival rates.
These three goals are achieved by
providing the following services for children
living with HIV/AIDS:
• Free HIV testing for at-risk children,
including pre- and post-test counseling;
• Medical consultations with trained
personnel;
• Access to free antiretroviral therapy
(ART);
• Free medicines to prevent and treat
opportunistic infections;
• Regular laboratory and diagnostic
testing;
• Emergency hospitalizations as needed;
• Psychosocial consultations and
counseling;
• Monthly support group;
• Nutritional support;
• School fees and books;
• Support from assigned community
health worker;
• Training for parents and guardians for
medication adherence.
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Program Impact
Since 2005, HTH’s Pediatric HIV Treatment
Program has been providing comprehensive
healthcare services to HIV-infected children.
Our holistic approach to care allows
children to become healthy enough to
attend school and achieve their dreams.
HTH currently provides comprehensive care
to 162 children living with HIV/AIDS. Over
the past nine months, HTH provided
psychosocial consultations to 39% more
children and their families, helping them
overcome the psychosocial barriers to care.
Almost 70% of enrolled children receive
nutritional support to help fight off the
effects of malnutrition. With improved
health and wellness come greater
educational opportunities. Thus, 100% of
children in the program are enrolled in and
regularly attending school.
In August 2013, HTH hired a new Medical
Director who has been instrumental in
maintaining the quality of care provided by
the Pediatric HIV Treatment Program, while
expanding care to even more children. The
Medical Director recently represented HTH
at a national conference on Pediatric HIV.
Given the success of the Pediatric HIV
Treatment program, HTH is currently being
considered as a pilot site to develop a
national Pediatric HIV Center of Excellence.
Finally, our Pediatric HIV Program is only
one half of HTH’s larger approach to
combating pediatric HIV. This program is a
complement to our Prevention of Mother to
Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
program, which aims to eliminate new
infections among infants born to women
living with HIV. Our goal is to provide the
highest possible standard of care to
children living with HIV, while also ensuring
that no babies are born with HIV.
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Summary of Key Impact Indicators:
Patient Testimonial
Stark Bode is a gifted student. Always first
in his class, Stark enrolled in college this
year at the age of 16. He has accomplished
so much despite living with HIV/AIDS since
childbirth.
Stark’s first visit to Hope Through Health’s
clinic occurred in 2005, when he was just
seven years old. Stark was suffering from
opportunistic infections at the time. His
CD4 count, a lab test that measures the
immune system’s strength, was just 59. The
CD4 count of an average, healthy child
should be well over 500. Stark’s young
body was already fighting advanced stage
AIDS, and thus he quickly began taking
lifesaving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
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Since losing his mother to AIDS at a young
age, Stark has lived with his father and his
younger brother, who fortunately is not
infected with HIV. His father, also living
with HIV, is a highly recognized artist in
town, specializing in oil-based painting.
However, his debilitated health makes it
difficult to work and support his two boys.
This makes the support that Stark receives
from Hope Through Health, including his
free medical care and quarterly food kit,
extremely valuable to his health and the
financial sustainability of his family.
Today, Stark rarely has opportunistic
infections due to his good adherence to
ARV treatment. His CD4 count is now a
solid 387, much closer to the normal range
for adults. With much improved health,
Stark can now dream of the future that he
wants to build for himself. He wishes to
become a doctor to conduct research on
HIV/AIDS. He is currently enrolled at the
University of Kara in the Faculty of
Management Sciences.
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DEVELOPMENT METRICS
Year to Date Raised
Annual Budget
% Raised
$96,338
$365,000
26%
January - March 2014
January - March 2013
Donation
Amount
Total
Monies
Raised
Number of
Donors
Donation
Amount
Total
Monies
Raised
Number of
Donors
<100
$2,861
59
<100
$4,552
82
100-499
$18,687
94
100-499
$17,635
101
500-999
$6,690
9
500-999
$6,390
9
1000-2499
$6,900
4
1000-2499
$6,922
5
2500-9999
$23,600
4
2500-9999
$6,200
2
10,000+
$37,600
2
10,000+
$30,000
2
TOTAL
$96,338
172
TOTAL
$71,699
201
Revenue by Campaign
(January - March 2014)
Hope Through Health
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Thank You to Our
Supporters!
January - March 2014
Founders Circle
> $10,000
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Matching Gifts Program
Visionaries Circle
$5,000 - 9,999
Jonathan Breeding and Ryan
McCannell
Gavin and Megan Oxman
Rotary Club of South Everett/
Mukilteo
Homer and Jaleh Sallee
Leaders Circle
$2,500 - 4,999
Cyrus Sallee
Advocates Circle
$1,000 - 2,499
Catapult
Peter Davenport
Kevin and Deborah Fiori
Joseph and Lisa Glennon
Sarah Sallee
Partners Circle
$500 - 999
Anonymous
Thomas and Marilyn Aylward
Jay Chen and Cara Waltrip
Daniel Fehlig and Ian Humphries
Jeremy Horowitz and Rachael
Gerber
Fred and Melanie Joiner
Natalie Powers
John and April Quinlan
Randy and Karen Veeh
Supporters Circle
$100 - 499
50four50
Jerome Agba
Aliza Family Foundation
Jessica Almon
Patrick Aylward
Paul and Sarah Balian
Hope Through Health
Dale Balsamo
William and Delphine Barron
Daphne Birdsey
Kelly Biscuso
Brian and Sandy Bochner
Thomas and Katie Carey
Mickey Chapman
Harinarayan Chenglath
Daniel Clark
Tom and Cindy Cooke
Marc and Jordanah Creegan
Mary Emma Davenport
Tom Diodato
Lauren Dockweiler
Alison Epstein
Mandi Erickson
Steve Fabrikant
Laura Fiery
Dawn Fiori
Vanessa Fiori
Kevin and Jennifer Fiori
Nadine Flexer
Jessica Freifeld
Daniel and Christiane Geisler
Eric and Mary Goldman
Laura Gottwald
Lindsay Gregory
Greg Hathaway and Aimee de la
Houssaye
Meghan Horstmann
Alex Jacobs
Isabella Johansen
Kiti Kajana
Dana Kaplan
Alexandra Kendall
Amir Khastoo
Thomas Koschwanez and Ashley
Thompson
Donald and Louise Krumm
Mark Krumm
Marisa Lascher
Ava Lentini
Michael Leonard
Jered Lindsay
Michael LoBue
Peter Luckow
Philip Luloff
Colleen Lynch
Leah MacDonald
Andrew MacGregor
Lisha McCormick
Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
James Mills
George Monagan
Rita Montone
Cara Morocco
Susan Myung
Brian Naylor
Lee Nussbaum
Matthew Oxman
Jenny Payne
Natalie Pica
Vincent and Jomarie Pica
Lianne Pimentel
Bryan and Alison Rash
David Rosengarten
Leah Sandals
Duncan and Eloise Schechter
James Schechter
Jamie Schmones
Greg Scott
Douglas Soviero
Lindyn Soviero
Michael Swor
Doug Taylor
Andrea Tese
Ric Todhunter
My-Thuan Tran
Alexandra Walsh
Andrew Weber
Mary Wedgewood
Ellen Wheeler
Casey and Jessica Whitsett
Chris and Deanna Witt
David Yudin
Friends Circle
< $100
Sal Accomando
Elizabeth Allen
Jacqueline Bleazey
Ben Blodgett
Leslie Bradshaw
Norbert and Catherine Chenard
Al and Joanne Cimorelli
John and Mary Kay Clement
Taylor and Cindy Corby
Elia Cubillas-Saldana
Rebecca Distler
Jeremy Dodd and Kelsy Baker
Thomas Fiori
Amy Glick
Lana Hamon
Michael Harvey
Shannon Heuklom
Karl Hofmann
Abe and Alene de la Houssaye
Olgahelena Joos
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Ismail Kassam
Erin Klein
Chelsea Kocis
Katherine Krizman
Marybeth Krumm
Paige Lapen
Justin and Marjorie Locke
Joan Marshall-Missiye
Dennis Math and Judith Ferbel
Taylor Maturo
Alyson McArdle
Charles Miller
Daniel Owens
Michael and Christine Pata
Camilla Pearson
Victor Pontis
Aleisha Porcena
Jeremy Ritz-Totten
Mary Robbins
Sabina Rogers
William Rubenstein
Elizabeth Savetsky
Martin Schneider
Karen Sellick
Joanie Smith Miller
Alisha Smith-Arthur
Tom and Karen Spence
Kenneth Steward
Jodi Tovay
Megan Turner
Matthew Vaccaro
James and Christine Walsh
Lanre Williams
Savannah Young
*Every attempt has been made to
ensure accuracy in the donor list.
However, in compiling such a list,
omissions and misspellings
sometimes occur. Please advise us
of any errors by emailing Kelly Lue
at [email protected]. Thank you.
A Special Thank You to Our Stand With Us Campaign Members!
Stand With Us Campaign members support Hope Through Health through recurring,
monthly donations. For just $20 a month, you can ensure the health of one patient living
with HIV in Togo for an entire year. If you are interested in joining the Stand With Us
Campaign, please visit our website and sign up for a monthly recurring donation of $20 or
more. Thank you for your support!
Stand With Us Members
(Recurring Monthly Donors)
January - March 2014
Anonymous
Sal Accomando
William and Delphine Barron
Jacqueline Bleazey
Leslie Bradshaw
John Breeding and Ryan
McCannell
Norbert and Catherine Chenard
Al and Joanne Cimorelli
Thomas and Cindy Cooke
Taylor and Cindy Corby
Marc Creegan
Elia Cubillas-Saldana
Peter Davenport
Mary Emma Davenport
Jeremy Dodd and Kelsy Baker
Kevin and Jennifer Fiori
Daniel and Christiane Geisler
Jeremy Horowitz and Rachael
Gerber
Amy Glick
Eric and Mary Goldman
Hope Through Health
Michael Harvey
Greg Hathaway and Aimee de la
Houssaye
Shannon Heuklom
Karl Hofman
Abe and Alene de la Houssaye
Isabella Johansen
Fred and Melanie Joiner
Olgahelena Joos
Ismail Kassam
Amir Khastoo
Chelsea Kocis
Donald and Louise Krum
Mark Krum
Marybeth Krumm
Paige Lapen
Ava Lentini
Justin and Marjorie Locke
Colleen Lynch
Joan Marshall-Missiye
Dennis Math and Judith Ferbel
Taylor Maturo
Alyson McArdle
James Mills
Michael and Christine Pata
Camilla Pearson
Natalie Powers
John and April Quinlan
Bryan and Alison Rash
Jeremy Ritz-Totten
Sabina Rogers
William Rubenstein
Duncan and Eloise Schechter
James Schecter
Karen Sellick
Joanie Smith Miller
Alisha Smith-Arthur
Tom and Karen Spence
Kenneth Steward
Matthew and Kathleen Vaccaro
Randy and Karen Veeh
James and Christine Walsh
Casey and Jessica Whitsett
Lanre Williams
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