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Volume 28, Supplement—December 2022
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Workforce

Use of Project ECHO in Response to COVID-19 in Countries Supported by US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

Janell WrightComments to Author , Laura Tison, Helen Chun, Cristine Gutierrez, Mariangeli Freitas Ning, Rosa Elena Morales, Beatriz Lopez, James Simpungwe, Kenneth Masamaro, Nazira Usmanova, Gram Mutandi, Sudhir Bunga, and Simon Agolory
Author affiliations: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Guatemala City, Guatemala (J. Wright, C. Gutierrez, M. Freitas Ning, R.E. Morales, B. Lopez); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (L. Tison, H. Chun); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lusaka, Zambia (J. Simpungwe, S. Agolory); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nairobi, Kenya (K. Masamaro); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (N. Usmanova); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Windhoek, Namibia (G. Mutandi); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Juba, South Sudan (S. Bunga)

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Table 2

COVID-19 Project ECHO program characteristics from 4 regions and countries, 2020–2021*

Project ECHO COVID-19 characteristics Coordinating organization (Hub) No. participants Participant cadre Participant location
Regional Central America Laboratory COVID-19 Project ECHO: in Spanish; first session held Jun 9, 2020; 6 biweekly sessions.
 SE-COMISCA El Salvador
 101–224
 Laboratory staff
 Member states of the SICA region (Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic), Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, United States
Regional Central America Clinical COVID-19 Project ECHO: in Spanish; first session held Apr 15, 2020; 31 weekly sessions.
 SE-COMISCA El Salvador
 127–328
 Medical doctors, nurses, clinical officers/medical licentiates,
 pharmacists
 Member states of the SICA region (Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic), Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Spain, United States
Kenya COVID-19 Project ECHO: in English; first session held Apr 3, 2020; 5 monthly sessions.
 National AIDS and STI Control Council Hub, Kenyatta National Hospital Hub
 300–1,037
 Physicians, medical officers, clinical officers, nurses, pharmacists, pharmaceutical technologists, laboratory staff, infection prevention teams
 Kenya
Southern Africa Regional COVID-19 Project ECHO (SARE): in English with Portuguese translation; first session held Dec 3, 2020; 11 biweekly sessions. Zambia Ministry of Health Project ECHO 61–264 Medical doctors, nurses, clinical officers/medical licentiates, pharmacists Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia

*ECHO, Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes; SE-COMISCA, Secretaría Ejecutiva del Consejo de Ministros de Salud de Centroamérica y República Dominicana; SICA, Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana; STI, sexually transmitted infection.

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