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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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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
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.
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.
Health Care
From 1 to Superhub: Zambia’s Ministry of Health Fuels ECHO Growth
Zambia’s Ministry of Health has become a foundational source of growth for Project ECHO’s Africa network.
Children
Bite-Sized with a Big Impact: ECHO Education in Nigeria
Improving access to continuing education is an urgent need for educators and there’s a local team using the ECHO Model to help.
Health Care
Cote d’Ivoire’s ECHO Network Bolsters Health Care Across Francophone Africa
From 2017 to 2024, Cote d’Ivoire’s ECHO network has rapidly expanded programs and regional outreach.
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Mpox Emergency: Project ECHO’s Network Responds
Project ECHO’s partners across Africa are taking action to train and mentor the health care workforce.
Emergency Preparedness and Response
WHO Collaborating Center for Digital Learning in Health Emergencies
The World Health Organization and Project ECHO partnership is a transformative catalyst for equity.
Health Care
ECHO Supports Infection Control Network in Africa
Project ECHO’s partnership with ICAN strengthens infection control across Africa, empowering health care providers to save lives.
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Project ECHO on the Frontlines with the Sudanese American Medical Association
Sudanese medical providers quickly learn critical war-time skills to save lives
Health Care
Report: Identifying and Filling Health Care Gaps in the Global South
This report represents the hard work and creativity of ECHO partners around the globe and offers scalable and affordable solutions to strengthen health systems worldwide – all while improving lives and health outcomes in key areas of pain and priority for governments.
Emergency Preparedness and Response
The ECHO Network in Africa Mitigates a Crisis
In September 2022, an Ebola outbreak across Uganda seemed certain. This particular strain of the highly infectious disease, a hemorrhagic virus that spreads through fluids—including blood and sweat—had a high fatality rate – nearly 50%.
HIV/AIDS
Young People in Africa Lead the Fight against HIV through Peer Mentorship
“We use ECHO’s case management process to review cases together and solve difficult problems,” says Peggy Kuchocha.
COVID-19
Sudan Tackles UN Sustainable Development Goals with Project ECHO
After Dr. Nada Fadul used Project ECHO to help her native country of Sudan face down the COVID-19 pandemic, she knew that ECHO’s virtual telementoring model worked.
Maternal and Child Health
Ethiopian Hospitals Improve Care for Mothers and Babies with ECHO
When the Ethiopian Pediatrics Society, together with the American Academy of Pediatrics, decided to address the child mortality problem, they turned to Project ECHO.
Health Care
Op-Ed: Establishing a New Norm for Health Care and Medical Education in Kenya
When COVID-19 hit early in 2020, many of us in Kenya were ready to respond to the new, virtual world we were entering.