What We Do
The state of healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa is dire. The Touch Foundation is doing something about it. By building a major medical school, growing the health workforce, and tackling broken health care systems, we are expanding access to quality basic healthcare. By acting now we can have an effect for many years to come – improving and saving many more lives.
The Challenge
The scale of suffering and preventable loss of life caused by the health crisis in sub-Saharan Africa is staggering. Each and every day, over two thousand children under five years of age die of malaria, a preventable and easily treatable disease. In fact, the region has one quarter of the global disease burden but tragically only three percent of the health workers.
The Solution
No simple, single solution exists for the health care crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. We rely on a package of interventions to focus on three cross-cutting initiatives in order to create a reliable health care system and promote healthier lives in Tanzania.
The Results
When a problem is as large and complex as the health care crisis in Africa, and so many different organizations and governments are working to solve it, the impact of any individual or group can be difficult to measure.