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.
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Mekele University (MU), located in Mekele Town, is providing training for students on general medical practice, public health, nursing, and other mid-level training courses for different cadres of health professionals.
MU is working closely with the Tigray Regional Health Bureau (RHB) and actively providing technical assistance that supports planning and implementation of various health programs in the region. The university is working closely with the teaching hospitals in Mekele and supports them in building capacity that will enable them to provide referral services and support facilities in the catchment areas of the hospitals.
Through technical support from PEPFAR Ethiopia's implementing partner (University of Washington I-TECH), MU and its teaching hospitals have initiated anti-HIV/AIDS activities and services among the university community and hospital clients. The university teaching hospital had 3,342 patients on ART as of October 2009, the largest number of any facility in Tigray.
The university has a strong working relationship with its USG counterpart, ITECH. MU will be in a good position to scale up its HIV/AIDS activities in a comprehensive manner, with due emphasis on prevention, care, and treatment and on linkages among these program areas. Activities will be expanded to address the needs of the university community and expanded further to involve the health networks and partner organizations and other stakeholders.
For the university to establish itself as a long-term technical support center, it needs to build its technical and administrative capacities. In order to establish these capacities, the university will be offered the opportunity to handle directly the administration and management of the technical and logistical arrangements required to support the health networks delivering ART and related services. The university will, therefore, receive direct financial and technical support that will enable it to establish the required experience through a cooperative agreement with CDC Ethiopia. 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 to be in a position to takeover smoothly the technical support currently provided by I-TECH.
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