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: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Context
The American Society of Microbiology (ASM) is a life-science society composed of over 42,000 scientists and health professionals.
Its mission is to promote research and research training in microbiological sciences, and to assist communication between scientist, policy makers and the public to improve health, economic wellbeing and the environment. ASM goals are to: develop and package training tools using new and existing resources through a consensus approach; monitor and evaluate progress and impact in order to identify best practices; and create sustainability at national levels through quality-assured programs and working with in-country partners.
Goals and Objectives
- Strengthening and expanding core functions of the National Health Laboratory Microbiology Laboratory
- Strengthening monitoring of antibiotic resistance nationwide
- Strengthening in-service, and continuing medical education (CME), for microbiology and the clinical microbiology network
- Providing onsite technical assistance for the development of the second regional TB culture laboratory in Botswana
- Supporting a national microbiology External Quality Assurance (EQA) program
- Supporting national Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) microscopy EQA program
Target populations
Laboratory personnel
Geographic Coverage
All laboratories in Botswana
Cross-Cutting Areas
ASM will build human capacity through mentoring and training programs.
Making the Most of Other HIV Resources
Working with MOH laboratory employees to strengthen the microbiology network and to establish an EQA program for AFB microscopy.
Establishing South-to-South collaborations involving sharing of evaluated, culturally appropriate and highly effective strategies and programs.
Encouraging south-to-north collaborations in order to continue to strengthen the cadre of highly competent microbiologist mentors for countries.
Enhancing Sustainability
Mentoring staff at different facilities and training them to run the program themselves by training trainer-of-trainers in different microbiology disciplines. This ensures sustainability once PEPFAR funding dries up.
ASM approach to strengthening laboratory capacity includes: ensuring countries have ownership of the programs as the countries are ultimately responsible for implementing them.
Monitoring and Evaluation
ASM monitors and evaluates all its intervention and trainings to ensure that capacity is built in-country.
10.C.TB05: American Society of Microbiology - TA - 250,000.00
Objective 1: Improve human resource capacity for clinical microbiology diagnostics. 1. Strengthen and expand core functions of the NHL Microbiology Laboratory. Consultants will continue to improve the surveillance of communicable diseases by providing training for detection and identification of STIs, diarrheal outbreaks, and respiratory outbreaks using molecular and automated methods. This includes the establishment of PCR for the rapid detection of STIs and automated Enzyme Immunoassays for the detection of infectious diseases, such as toxoplasma, measles, rubella, and Herpes simplex, among other diseases. 2. Strengthen monitoring of antibiotic resistance nationwide. Consultants will assist the NHL staff with the collection of bacteria and information throughout the country to monitor resistance, ensure capacity and quality control (QC) for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), use WHONET to develop antibiograms and publish the annual resistance report, and disseminate reports to other laboratories throughout the country. 3. Strengthen in-service training and continuing medical education (CME) for microbiology and the clinical microbiology network. Consultants will focus on strengthening in-service training and CME for microbiology by reproducing the model developed for the AFB smear microscopy. 4. Consultants will provide additional training of staff at referral and peripheral microbiology laboratories in bacteriology, parasitology, and mycology procedures. They will expand the services of the Botswana referral hospitals to include automated and rapid diagnostics, such as automated blood culture. Objective 2: Improve the quality of laboratory services. 1. Support for the national microbiology EQA program. Consultants will continue to strengthen the bacteriology EQA program and support competency assessments of the microbiology laboratory staff. 2. Support for the national AFB microscopy EQA program. Consultants will provide continuous onsite supervision and training for the strengthening of the AFB microscopy EQA program. This includes mentoring the QA team on conducting blinded rechecking, supervisory visits, and panel testing as well as providing feedback on results.
