ECHO Global Health Initiatives in HIV, Tuberculosis and Health Security

Project ECHO is rapidly growing in Africa, Asia and Latin America, supporting care and treatment in HIV, tuberculosis, laboratory strengthening and global health security. HIV, TB and other infectious diseases are treatable with the right knowledge at the right place and right time.

The Global HIV ECHO Initiative

The Global HIV ECHO Initiative is a collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other partners aiming to improve care and treatment of the estimated 37 million people living with HIV worldwide. The initiative currently focuses on high burden countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and Latin-America supported through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Read more about CDC's collaboration with ECHO in Namibia.

The Global Tuberculosis ECHO Initiative

The Global TB ECHO Initiative supports the World Health Organization's Global Plan to End TB. Twelve countries are implementing TB ECHO programs in: Vietnam, India, Georgia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and the United States.

In the United States, there are ECHO programs along the U.S.-Mexico border and in New Mexico, Colorado, Washington and Massachusetts.

The programs focus on strengthening care and treatment of multi-drug resistant TB, pediatric TB, TB Data 4 Action and TB infection.

ECHO Programs Focused on Laboratory Strengthening

• ECHO programs focused on laboratory strengthening are part of the effort to address HIV, TB and global health security threats.
• The ECHO Institute is working with the African Society for Laboratory Medicine connecting 11 African countries to share best practices on HIV Viral Load Scale Up, the Tanzania Health Promotion System on improving HIV Rapid Testing and TB diagnostics across Tanzania, the American Society for Microbiology to address Antimicrobial Resistance in Kenya and Ethiopia, and the South Africa National Health Laboratory Service to strengthen laboratory services.
• Project ECHO supports the Global Health Security Initiative by working with the Africa CDC in their mission to improve infectious disease surveillance, public health emergency preparedness and response, including addressing outbreaks and public health events of regional and international concern such as cholera and Ebola. Public Health specialists in more than 40 African countries connect through ECHO sessions to share information on infectious disease outbreaks and International Health Regulation implementation.
• Since 2019, Project ECHO has been a part of a consortium to support the One Health Workforce for the Next Generation training activities in Asia and Africa. 

Information Sheets:

• ECHO in Africa
• HIV ECHOs Globally