Implementation of the ECHO Study began at five sites in South Africa: the MatCH Research Ethekwini site in Durban (the first ECHO site to be activated) and the Wits RHI site in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, in early December 2015; the Setshaba Research Centre site in Soshanguve in January 2016; and the MatCH Research Edendale site in Pietermaritzburg and the Effective Care Research Unit (ECRU) site in East London in February 2016. In the first two waves of site initiation, these 5 sites began recruiting, screening and enroling potential participants. Study implementation will begin at 7 other sites in the next few months.
See http://echo-consortium.com/match-research-commercial-city-site-profile/ for the MatCH Research Commercial City site profile, featured in first edition of the ECHO Quarterly Update…