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 ITECH 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).
The Defense University, located in Addis Ababa, is the only university providing training and technical support for the military and their dependents. It provides training for general medical practitioners (MD), public health officers and a number of mid-level training courses for other cadres of health professionals. It is currently supporting in-service training for health workers from the military health services as well as health workers from other public health services. It has VCT, PMTCT, and ART service facility within its teaching hospital, the Armed Forces General Teaching Hospital. This has been used as a demonstration site for many HIV/AIDS related services. The university teaching hospital is the major referral facility for the military and dependents and currently handling a huge patient load, including those with HIV/AIDS.
In FY06, the teaching hospital, as one of the 89 ART hospitals implementing ART services supported by PEPFAR Ethiopia and moving at a fast rate in terms of recruiting eligible patients. As the military (and the uniformed services including the police), which constitute a high risk group for HIV/AIDS, are scaling up their response to HIV/AIDS epidemic by utilizing opportunities and resources through numerous national and international initiatives, Defense University has developed a strategic plan to develop the required human resources by mainstreaming HIV/AIDS interventions into its training programs. Through the support from PEPFAR Ethiopia implementing partners, the Defense University has initiated institutionalizing HIV/AIDS related activities. It has established a structure that will coordinate HIV/AIDS related activities. Tangible measures have been taken to coordinate activities with Addis Ababa University. Currently there is much collaboration between the two universities in terms of training, research and service related activities.
In FY07, through the support of UCSD, the Defense University will continue to coordinate and scale up the response to HIV/AIDS it has initiated in collaboration with its partners. The university will build on previous support and the achievements gained through its collaborative activities with PEPFAR Ethiopia, particularly experience gained in FY06. The University and its teaching hospital will work with the military health networks in Operation Zone 4 (military and police health networks) delivering care and ART services. It will establish a functional network with MOH, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (HAPCO), RHB, and NGO to implement activities planned for FY06.
FY07 will afford the university and its teaching hospital opportunities to build its capacity to support facilities in the military health network. For the university to establish itself as a training and technical support center, it needs to upgrade its managerial capacities in FY07. It needs to work closely with UCSD as this will present a unique opportunity to directly handle the administration and management of the technical and logistical arrangements required to support health networks delivering ART and related services. The university will, therefore, need to be provided with direct financial and technical support that will enable it to establish the required services through a cooperative agreement with CDC-E. This will allow the university to strengthen its engagement in managing its HIV/AIDS program and its support to the national and regional programs. This will help the university be in a position to takeover the technical support smoothly currently provided by UCSD.
