Universal Health Coverage in focus: A WHO Regional Office for Africa meeting in Lomé (Sept 15) brought together lab and diagnostics officials from 16 countries to map how to close gaps in access to essential health services by 2030, with Togo pushing gains in public health and neglected tropical disease elimination. Local AMU service expansion: Togo’s universal health insurance (AMU) is adding more local INAM/CNSS offices across Greater Lomé, including at Dogta-Lafiè Hospital and several community health centers, to help members with registration, documents, complaints, and prior authorization. Digital radiology upgrade: Clinicaa is rolling out X-rayVision, a teleradiology tool that lets facilities send images to remote radiologists to speed up reports and improve specialist access. Regional health leadership: Togolese physician-academic Palokinam Pitché began his four-year term as head of the West African Health Organization (WAHO/OOAS), bringing long experience in HIV care and regional health policy. Health workforce and access: Togo is also expanding local health insurance coverage and strengthening research-to-industry links, while the University of Datcha opens first programs that include health facility management and biomedical instrumentation. Health-adjacent community safety: In Ghana’s Kpando, municipal projects are commissioning education and healthcare infrastructure like CHPS compounds and nurses’ quarters—showing the kind of local service upgrades that improve health access. Environment and health risk: Weto Platform warns that borrow pits and river works near the Akwapim-Togo Mountain Range are causing flooding, mudslides, and higher stream turbidity—threatening water, farming, and aquatic life.