CRIPS-TOGO's principles of action are the main reasons on which it is based in the implementation of its associative project. There are four of these principles:

• • • • • • • • • People's autonomy
                • Social transformation
                • The community dimension
                • Non-governmental action

 

1. The community dimension

CRIPS-TOGO is made up of people who have mobilized to be their own players in their own health and that of their community, including community health and HIV issues. CRIPS-TOGO's approach places people who benefit from its services not as patients or users, but as experts in their own health, practices and experiences, and those in the community to which they belong. CRIPS-TOGO therefore does not "for" but "with" in its community approach.

 

2. Social transformation

To work towards the emergence of a community where the weight of life is reduced and access to quality health care for poor people is ensured is to transform society.

CRIPS-TOGO's social commitment is seen as a tool to transform society in a way that is conducive to greater solidarity, particularly towards people living with HIV and other chronic diseases. This is in order to transform their economic and social conditions, often characterized by high insecurity and discrimination (employment, access to care, family or friendly circle, etc.).

 

3. People's autonomy

Autonomy is the ability to act on its own. In line with community action, the principle of people's autonomy is to carry out actions "with" people and not "for" them in order to maintain or accompany them towards autonomy.

 

4. Non-governmental action

CRIPS-TOGO is a non-governmental organization that refers to two ideas:

• CRIPS-TOGO's independence from political power. CRIPS-TOGO does not support or ideologically oppose a current and political power but supports decisions and proposals that seem to favour improving the economic and social conditions of the poor or vulnerable in particular, people living with HIV and the fight against HIV and other chronic diseases and opposes decisions that appear to be going in the opposite direction;
• The implementation of actions, sometimes innovative, legal public to compensate for the inadequacy of government intervention and in which members and beneficiaries consider it appropriate to engage.