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.
Nutrition support, an important aspect of comprehensive treatment, palliative care, and OVC services, has been less than systematic in many EP-supported programs. Plus-up funds are requested to develop and implement strategies for improving the quality and targeted provision of nutrition support to selected patients receiving ART and palliative care as well as to OVC (ages 0-18 years), pregnant women, and infants of sero-positive mothers.
Strategies will include, as appropriate, infant feeding counseling, support, and follow-up for all HIV-exposed infants and mothers, along with a package of child-survival and reproductive-health interventions with linkages to HIV prevention, treatment, and care services; nutritional assessment, counseling, and support as an integrated part of clinical care and treatment of PLWHA, including routine assessment of anthropometric status, nutrition-related symptoms, and diet, with therapeutic or supplementary feeding support for malnourished patients; linkages to food aid and to social services that can assist in the assessment and support of household food security; necessary training for health workers and OVC caregivers; and wrap-around nutrition support provided as part of home-based palliative care and OVC care. Funded activities will include detailed evaluations and nutritional assessments to define and develop appropriate protocols for OVC.
