The Togolese Republic has a high HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate of 2.4%. About 106,300 people were living with the disease in 2015 with about 5,100 deaths recorded within the same year. These were just the officially reported cases. Several cases go undocumented and there are many more living with the disease in Togo today. Besides HIV/AIDS, the deadly malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, meningococcal meningitis, schistosomiasis and rabies continue to destroy several lives in Togo today.

Just like its neighboring countries, the Togolese Republic is blessed with abundance of natural resources including limestone, phosphates, marble, and arable land. However, despite the abundance of natural resources, Togo remains one of the poorest countries in Africa today with about 56% of its population living below the international poverty line. According to the World Health Organization, about 16.2% of Togolese children under the age five were underweight in 2014.Togo has a literacy rate of 66.5% for the total population with the female literacy rate hovering around 55.3%. In other words, just about 55.3% of females above the age 15 can read and write in Togo today which is very bad compared.