PEPFAR's annual planning process is done either at the country (COP) or regional level (ROP).
PEPFAR's programs are implemented through implementing partners who apply for funding based on PEPFAR's published Requests for Applications.
Since 2010, PEPFAR COPs have grouped implementing partners according to an organizational type. We have retroactively applied these classifications to earlier years in the database as well.
Also called "Strategic Areas", these are general areas of HIV programming. Each program area has several corresponding budget codes.
Specific areas of HIV programming. Budget Codes are the lowest level of spending data available.
Expenditure Program Areas track general areas of PEPFAR expenditure.
Expenditure Sub-Program Areas track more specific PEPFAR expenditures.
Object classes provide highly specific ways that implementing partners are spending PEPFAR funds on programming.
Cross-cutting attributions are areas of PEPFAR programming that contribute across several program areas. They contain limited indicative information related to aspects such as human resources, health infrastructure, or key populations programming. However, they represent only a small proportion of the total funds that PEPFAR allocates through the COP process. Additionally, they have changed significantly over the years. As such, analysis and interpretation of these data should be approached carefully. Learn more
Beneficiary Expenditure data identify how PEPFAR programming is targeted at reaching different populations.
Sub-Beneficiary Expenditure data highlight more specific populations targeted for HIV prevention and treatment interventions.
PEPFAR sets targets using the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) System - documentation for which can be found on PEPFAR's website at https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. As with most data on this website, the targets here have been extracted from the COP documents. Targets are for the fiscal year following each COP year, such that selecting 2016 will access targets for FY2017. This feature is currently experimental and should be used for exploratory purposes only at present.
Narrative Overview
Human resources represent a major challenge in terms of both quantity and capacity of the healthcare delivery system to address Angola's public health needs. Angola currently has one physician, fourteen nurses, one pharmacist and one laboratory technician per 10,000 people. These statistics illuminate the critical shortage of skilled public health workers, particularly field epidemiologists and laboratory managers, with the capacity to respond to the increasing public health needs in the Republic of Angola. This shortage of qualified and capable health care workers poses a major challenge for healthcare delivery. The Angola Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (A-FELTP) is a collaborative effort of the Angola Ministry of (MoH), University Agostinho Neto (UAN), the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), and PEPFAR to address human resource issues regarding qualified epidemiology and lab personnel. Currently, UAN is the only public medical academic institution with the capacity to develop a highly skilled public health workforce, equipped to respond to the dire public health needs in Angola. GRA has given UAN the legal authority to coordinate and provide higher public health education and medical studies. As a result, this is the only eligible applicant for this funding opportunity and the only applicant to serve as the host university for the A-FELTP
Implementation of the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) will 1)enhance retention of health care providers through specialization opportunities; 2) increase the number of qualified professionally trained health care workers through short term trainings (60 annually in field-based applied epidemiology, laboratory management and public health practice training); 3)strengthen the capacity of health and training institutions to meet accreditation standards; 4) contribute to the development of specific evidence based pre-service curricula; 5) in collaboration with the Avian Influenza program, through a staged process, 6-12 residents will be trained annually to earn a specialization or masters degree in public health; 6) develop curriculum for training of trainers and terms of reference for the lab trainers to build human resources to support expansion and decentralization of the laboratory network. The program will be initiated in Luanda; other provincial universities that are now being stood up could receive training support initially via distant learning technology sponsored by the World Bank. Technical assistance will be provided to explore twinning opportunities with compatible universities to strengthen and adopt standardized, pre-service competency-based education driven by evidence of need.
The USG support for the A-FELTP at UAN is consistent with the Government of Angola (GRA's) National Strategic Plan to strengthen a cadre of public health professionals to adequately respond to the national initiative to combat HIV/AIDS. A Memorandum of Understanding has been executed among the Ministry of Health, UAN and AFENET to establish the A-FELTP.
The roles and responsibilities of MOE/UAN are as follows:
Offer the degree certificates upon successful completion of the course;
Support the A-FELTP throughout the development process;
Assist in finalizing training curriculum ;
Obtain approval of the A-FELTP curriculum;
Serve as the host for the Public Health Laboratory Residents and Field Epidemiology Residents;
Award a MPH in Laboratory Epidemiology and Management, Field Veterinary Epidemiology or Field Epidemiology upon satisfactory completion of the program;
Provide academic supervision during field attachment and dissertation writing; and
Provide time to residents to conduct outbreak investigation during the training period when requested by MOH.
Participate on the A-FELTP steering committee.
The USG will fund the MOE/UAN to achieve the following activities:
Develop and implement, along with other partners, an integrated and sustainable training plan to build evidence-based public health capacity.
Develop, along with other partners, curriculum and facilitate courses in epidemiology, surveillance, outbreak investigation, biostatistics, among others, along with local faculty, MOH staff, and other guest lecturers.
Work with counterparts to develop guidelines for trainee selection and select first cohort of trainees
Work with counterparts to develop field site guidelines and obtain site commitments for participation.
Designate a faculty focal person to assume leadership responsibility for university participation.
Strengthen affiliations with international organizations, the Africa Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) and Training in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network, an umbrella organization of applied epidemiology and laboratory programs in other countries, and
Enhance communications and networking of public health practitioners and researchers in the country and throughout the region.
Work with counterparts to identify and train faculty.
Develop and appropriate academic environment for trainees (classrooms, internet access, and other logistics).
Conduct two short courses for various public health managers
Enroll the first cohort of the two-year program
