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: 2013 2015 2016
African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) will organize a Stepwise Laboratory Improvement. Process Towards Accreditation (SLIPTA) Auditors training course in Mbabane, Swaziland. ASLM will use standardized curriculum to train 5 participants. Those successful (70% score in the final examination) in completing the SLIPTA auditors training will conduct auditing and provide technical assistance and guidance to medical laboratories in the country. The first three days will be for didactic and the other two days are for mock assessment and feedback provision. Those successful participants will also conduct post training audit practicum to become an independent auditor. ASLM will also link Swaziland to ASLM collaborating centers and internationally to organizations like ASCP, APHL and others to learn best practices on quality laboratory management systems, capacity building of the laboratory workforce and other relevant developments in laboratory medicine.
ASLM will:
1. Provide Technical Assistance in setting up a Medical Laboratory Council to handle and prescribe credentials for Laboratory Professionals registration and Professional conduct
2..Support the set-up and the functions and affiliations of the Laboratory Professional body
3.Provide Technical Assistance in setting up standards for Laboratory Accreditation through SLMTA by providing assessors . This assistance is expected to further professionalize laboratory services in Swaziland.
