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Read how Project ECHO is impacting communities worldwide
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Vietnam: Advancing Women’s Careers through the ECHO Model
ECHO leaders are creating more opportunities for women in health care leadership and access to training.
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Noncommunicable Diseases
A Silent Health Crisis: Hypertension in India’s Rural Communities
In India, hypertension training for health workers is a critical public health need. Project ECHO is empowering India’s frontline health workers to detect and manage high blood pressure, one community at a time.
Diabetes
La Lucha Contra la Diabetes en el Brasil Rural: Formar a Profesionales Sanitarios para que Presten Cuidados que Salvan Vidas
En las zonas rurales de Brasil, el acceso a la atención diabética es muy limitado. Con formación virtual y orientación, el programa de ECHO de diabetes de la Universidad Federal de Sergipe está cambiando la forma en que se trata la diabetes, llegando a más comunidades y mejorando vidas.
Diabetes
Combatendo o Diabetes na Zona Rural do Brasil: Capacitação de Profissionais de Saúde para Prestar Cuidados que Salvam Vida
Nas áreas rurais do Brasil, o acesso a cuidados para diabetes é bem limitado. Com treinamento virtual e orientação, o programa ECHO de diabetes da Universidade Federal de Sergipe está mudando a forma como a diabetes é tratada, alcançando mais comunidades e melhorando vidas.
Diabetes
Fighting Diabetes in Rural Brazil: Empowering Health Workers to Deliver Life-Saving Care
In rural Brazil, access to diabetes care is limited. Through virtual training and mentorship, the Federal University of Sergipe’s diabetes program is changing the way diabetes is treated—reaching more communities and improving lives.
Health Care
Responding to Gender-Based Violence During War: Sudan
Since 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by civil war, genocide and gender-based violence. Civilian populations have suffered from atrocities and wanton violence. And, with much of the country’s infrastructure destroyed, health workers are forced to provide care in the field.
Systems Change
Expanding Opportunities and Building Workforce Capacity in Senegal’s University System
Until last year, Professor Halimatou Diop-Ndiaye had not seen a woman as vice dean during her tenure at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar. In her own department, less than one-quarter of the faculty were women.
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.
Education
TIPS ECHO Creates a Trauma-Informed Community for Educators to Help Kids and Families
Like many ECHOs, TIPS ECHO Program was born out of need. In this case TIPS, or Trauma-Informed Preschool Support, was created by The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness of Adventist HealthCare in response to the trauma seen in young children during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Substance Use Disorder
Breaking the Cycle: Expanding Opioid Treatment in New Mexico
Project ECHO is expanding access to evidence-based treatment, intervention and prevention strategies for substance use disorders for two of the state’s most vulnerable populations: pregnant people and people in detention centers.
Communicable Diseases
Equipping New Mexico’s Public Health Providers to Combat the Syphilis Epidemic
Syphilis is surging in New Mexico. According to the CDC, the state is now ranked second-highest in the nation for the rate of syphilis cases, and leading in the rate of congenital syphilis cases.
Substance Use Disorder
A Personal Journey Through Chronic Pain and Stigma
Project ECHO’s Opioid Crisis and Pain Management program empowers health care professionals in rural communities with expert-led training and resources to enhance harm reduction, opioid overdose prevention, and patient care.
Education
Khanmigo ECHO: Transforming Classroom Education By Training Teachers To Use AI
Imagine a classroom where every student has their own “learning coach,” someone who guides their exploration of subjects from algebra to chemistry while coordinating in real time with their teachers.
Health Care
Prevención de superbacterias: ECHO trabaja para preservar la eficacia de los antibióticos
La resistencia a los antimicrobianos provoca muertes evitables, incrementa los costos de la atención sanitaria y reduce la eficacia de los antibióticos que salvan vidas. Los programas ECHO de TEACH AMS están apoyando a los sistemas de salud para afrontar este desafío.
Health Care
Prevenção de superbactérias: o ECHO trabalha para preservar a eficácia dos antibióticos
A resistência antimicrobiana causa mortes evitáveis, aumenta os custos da saúde e reduz a eficácia dos antibióticos que salvam vidas. Os programas TEACH AMS ECHO estão apoiando os sistemas de saúde para enfrentar esse desafio.
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
Preventing Superbugs: ECHO Works to Keep Antibiotics Effective
Antimicrobial resistance leads to unnecessary deaths, drives up health care costs and undermines the effectiveness of life-saving antibiotics. The TEACH AMS ECHO Programs are helping health care systems meet the challenge.
Children
‘Reflective Practice’ Supports Early Childhood Professionals
This New Mexico ECHO program supports early childhood professionals develop emotional resilience in tough situations.
Long COVID
Empowering Providers in Underserved Regions to Treat Long COVID
The Schmidt Initiative for Long Covid and Project ECHO are working to improve care for long COVID by building capacity, raising awareness and enhancing access to treatments.