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.
Years of mechanism: 2007 2008 2009
08.C0705: American Society of Microbiology - Technical assistance on TB/HIV for laboratories
2007 Achievements
In FY07, funds were requested to strengthen TB diagnostic services at the NTRL and to evaluate the
capacity of the NHL and peripheral laboratories to diagnose opportunistic infection (OIs) and sexually
transmitted infections (STIs). The identified gaps and weaknesses will be addressed in FY08.
The technical assistance enabled the NTRL to improve its local organization and its capacity to provide
quality-assured TB microscopy, culture and drug sensitivity testing. The NTRL was enrolled with Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) External Quality Assurance (EQA) in 2006 as well as the South
African EQA program with the National Health Laboratory Service, enabling it to provide services for the
fourth national drug resistance survey (DRS), with FY2007 funding. WHO/CDC training material was
customized and produced to support the TB microscopy training program.
2008 Plans
National TB Reference Laboratory
FY2008 funding is requested for the ASM to provide technical assistance to the NTRL and the peripheral
laboratories to maintain and improve TB microbiological services, strengthen the EQA program for TB
microscopy by training local staff in preparing TB panels and smear microscopy for the EQA program.
National Health Laboratory: Local organization capacity development
Diagnosis of STIs and OIs is an important component of HIV prevention, care and treatment. Botswana had
significant difficulties in identifying the pathogen responsible for a recent outbreak of infant diarrhea, mainly
due to weakness of the microbiology laboratory capacity in the country. FY08 funding is requested for ASM
to provide technical support to Botswana for basic clinical microbiological services for common OIs and to
provide guidance for establishing a central microbiology laboratory.
08.T1206: Laboratory Accreditation Support
To strengthen the laboratory infrastructure in Botswana, in FY05 and FY06 work was done to enhance and
implement a laboratory QA program in the public health laboratories in Botswana. The objective was to
enroll three public health laboratories for accreditation in the South African National Accreditation System
(SANAS) board. Assessment was conducted to the selected sites and a quality manual developed, a first
Audit conducted by the Botswana Bureau of Standards showed lot of non compliances to the quality
standard. 2008 funds are requested to address the gaps and continue the preparation of the laboratory to
accreditation in 2008.
