2024 Annual Report Featured Content: Africa

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Around the world, people lack access to life-saving knowledge and expertise.

With Project ECHO, we know a world where life-saving best practices are available to every person, no matter their circumstance, is possible. Project ECHO’s revolutionary model provides training and mentorship to transform and sustain strong health systems where every person has fast access to the highest quality health care.

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Protecting Critical Resources

“ECHO helps with the discussion that you might have limited resources but you still end up managing the patient the correct way,” says Dr. Dennis Odhiambo Omondi, general surgeon at the Thika Level 5 Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.

In Kenya, providers at health care facilities across the country are working together to learn, and share, best practices to make sure antibiotics are prescribed appropriately.

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Our Reach  

212 countries and areas
7,925 programs
7,263,000 echo session attendances
1,525 hubs
43 superhubs
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Before ECHO, we would see people coming to our health care facility with advanced-stage disease. Since launching our ECHO program to increase provider capacity to diagnose multiple myeloma, we’ve seen an increase in number of patients with an early diagnosis. Patients are being reached [earlier] and getting quality care.” 

Mercy Odour
Participant, AMPATH; Kenya

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In a matter of weeks, I screened 200 women and referred 15 of them to tertiary care centers [for further treatment]. I felt so motivated by the ECHO training that I immediately taught two staff nurses and three auxiliary nurse midwives how to conduct the cervical cancer screenings. ”  

Dr. Sree Devi Merum 
Participant, ECHO Program for Cancer Screening Certification
Medical Officer; Lepakshi, India

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What they’re learning in the ECHO sessions doesn’t require them to go to medical school or get years of training. It’s immediately available education that can change the outcome for patients and save a lot of resources and investments.”  

Dr. Bonaventure Ahaisibwe
Participant
Regional Director, Seed Global Health; Uganda

 News & Stories

Health Care

From Stigma to Support: Flipping the Script on Mental Health in India

ECHO India and the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences are changing this landscape, offering a beacon of hope to communities in need.

Health Care

WATCH: Kenyan Providers Fight Antimicrobial Resistance Through ECHO

Part of an eight-country network, providers at more than 470 hospitals across Kenya join together in the Telementoring, Equity and Advocacy Collaboration for Health through Antimicrobial Stewardship ECHO Program. 

Health Care

Indonesia: Changing the Shape of the Health System

Indonesia’s Ministry of Health has ambitious goals for its health system and it’s using the ECHO Model to get there. 

ECHO Around the World

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  • 100+ Active Programs
  • 10-99 Active Programs
  • 1-9 Active Programs

*Active within the past 12 months

Our Impact

The ECHO Model has been used around the world to support mentorship and training in health care, education, climate change and other social determinants of health.

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New Mexico

In Focus: The State’s Most Vulnerable Populations

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United States

Always At The Ready

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Africa

Meeting the Most Critical Community Needs

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India

Bridging Sectors and States

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Asia-Pacific

Significant Markers of Success

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Latin America

Furthering Our Impact

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 Our Model

It’s a ripple effect. When one participant in ECHO shares their expertise with their peers, each of them can go on to improve the lives of hundreds of people in their communities.

The ECHO Model

Amplification: use technology to leverage scarce resources; Best Practices: Share best practices to reduce disparities; Case-Based Learning: Apply case-based learning to master complexity; Data: Evaluate and monitor outcomes.

700 Evidence-Based Impact

More than 700 peer-reviewed research papers have demonstrated the effectiveness of Project ECHO.

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iECHO Platform

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