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.
HIV/AIDS (ART) Program Implementation Support
This is a continuing activity from FY06 and relates to JHU activities: Technical Support for ART Scale-up (5664), Counseling and Testing (5728), TB/HIV (5754), Palliative Care (5618), PMTCT (5641), STI Services (5800), Laboratory Support (new) as well as activities implemented through the Twinning Initiative (5678).
Debub University located in Awassa in the south is, the seat of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR),and is offering training in general medical practice (MD), public health and a number of mid-level training courses for health professionals. It is currently the hub of public health education for SNNPR and the adjoining regions and is actively participating in various activities of the Regional Health Bureau. Its teaching hospital is evolving as a referral facility for the heavily populated southern part of the country. SNNPR is scaling up its response to HIV/AIDS epidemic by utilizing opportunities and resources via numerous national and international initiatives. The University is also expanding its support to the regional HIV/AIDS program, including ART services. It is increasingly involved in various HIV/AIDS and related activities both at regional, woreda and site levels. This includes in-service training of health workers to meet the high human resource needs to implement HIV/AIDS, TB and STI program activities in SNNPR.
In FY06, through technical support from PEPFAR Ethiopia implementing partners, Debub University is strengthening HIV/AIDS activities and is currently contributing to the regional effort to mitigate the spread the epidemic. The process of institutionalizing HIV/AIDS related activities has been strengthened by the structure (HIV/AIDS Affairs Unit) and by assigning a focal person at the Awassa College of Health Sciences. The Unit is directly accountable to the President of the University and oversees and coordinates University-wide HIV/AIDS response. An anti-AIDS clubs association led by the students' council has been well established with branches in all five campuses. Coordination of activities has been initiated to work with the Gender Office of the University to address the specific needs of female University members. The Association is in the process of evolving as major movement aspiring to form a region-wide youth movement to support regional and national efforts by networking with other local universities and similar institutions abroad.
In FY06, through the support of Johns Hopkins University, Debub University is coordinating its efforts that have been initiated to limit HIV transmission and mitigate the effects of AIDS. The University and its teaching hospital will work with the health networks delivering care and treatment services in ART Operation Zone 3. It has established a functional network with Regional HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (HAPCO), RHB, NGO like Tilla (Regional Association of PLWHA), private sector institutions. It is currently working with these partners and providing technical assistance that will enable these partners work towards achieving targets set for FY06. The support from PEPFAR Ethiopia has afforded the university and its teaching hospital with opportunities, not only to strengthen it anti-HIV/AIDS activities within the university community, but also enabled it to build its capacity to support health networks in SNNPR.
For the University to establish itself as a technical support center in the long-run, managerial and leadership capacities need to be built further in FY07. There is a need for deliberate action to establish managerial and technical capabilities by offering the University the opportunity as well challenge to handle directly the administration and management of the technical and logistical arrangements required to support the health networks delivering ART and other HIV/AIDS related services. In FY07, the University will strengthen its support to in-service training and direct technical assistance to SNNPR Regional Health Bureau and initiate pre-service training on HIV/AIDS, including ART. Debub University will be involved in targeted evaluation of HIV/AIDS program implementation and in regional activities related to data processing, documentation of best practices and dissemination scientific information. The university will, also be involved in direct technical support and management of funds through a cooperative agreement with CDC-E, a process that enables it to establish the required experience. This will allow the University to strengthen its engagement in managing its HIV/AIDS program and its support to national and regional programs. This will also help the university be in a position to takeover smoothly in the long haul the technical support currently provided by
Johns Hopkins University.
