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.
Goals and objectives
- To ensure a comprehensive national blood-safety program that includes a safe mechanism for blood collection, testing, distribution, transfusion and training
- To develop a cohort of regular blood donors
Major Activities
The NBTS will utilize the no-cost extension budget, and continue to provide the wide array of services that it has been funded to do from previous years. These include:
- Implementation of a quality management system
- Public sensitization campaigns on blood transfusion and transfusion transmissible infections
- Training of blood transfusion personnel
- Supervisory visits to the regional centers and blood banks
- Supporting the establishment of blood-donor clubs
- Initiation of the accreditation process
- Paying the salaries of 20 NBTS staff
The project will train 190 NBTS staff and clinicians in different aspects of transfusion.
Target population
Donors aged 16-65
Patients requiring blood transfusion
Geographic Coverage
32 hospitals nationwide
All health districts country-wide
Supporting Health Goals and System Strengthening
NBTS is the major player in terms of providing guidance and resources to improving and strengthening the national blood safety program.
Through infrastructural development and capacity-building, implementation of a quality management system, and implementation of national guidelines on clinical use of blood and blood products, NBTS helps to ensure that the country's healthcare system is effective.
Cross-Cutting Areas
Since all donors must be tested for HIV, the blood-donation program links nicely with HIV counseling and testing services.
By developing a cohort of voluntary, regular, unpaid donors, NBTS has improved its ability to provide safe and sufficient amounts of blood to those in need which, at present, are most commonly HIV-related anemia patients, including severely anemic AIDS patients following first-line ART.
Enhancing sustainability
A proposed blood depot in Maun will improve accessibility of blood and blood products for the hospitals in the Ngami, Okavango, and Chobe districts. This will decrease the cost of blood transport services.
NBTS will partner with the Botswana Red Cross which has 32 fixed centers to expand donor recruitment activities nationally.
Monitoring and Evaluation
NBTS will conduct regular supervisory visits to hospital blood banks and produce quarterly reports on the project.
An annual financial audit of the project will be performed.
10.P.BS02: MOH - Support to the National Blood Transfusion Service - 100.00
One hundred US dollars of new funding will be granted to the Ministry of Health for this activity to meet CDC Procurement and Grants regulations that require a minimal amount of new funding be awarded in order for a grantee to receive approval to use carryover funds from previous fiscal years.
