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.
Goals: The goal of the Comprehensive HIV Education Program is to develop and implement an innovative, evidence-based, online curriculum designed with unique content for health care workers taking care of HIV-infected patients. The program will serve a variety of professionals across the care continuum, providing for a foundation of shared knowledge.
Objectives: Its main purpose is to strengthen human capacity for health and improve the quality of service delivery at HIV care and treatment providing facilities by using Comprehensive HIV Education Program for continuing medical education (CME) of the health care providers in Ethiopia.
The program will use a concerted, standardized, and systematized program of training and education for new and existing cadres of health workers to ensure the delivery of comprehensive and quality HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services. The program will develop and implement innovative, evidence based curriculum designed for health care workers providing care for HIV patients, and will serve a variety of professionals across the continuum of care. This will enable to improve the quality and efficiency of service delivery through enhancing and updating the skill and knowledge of the health providers.
Geographic Coverage: CME program will be implemented in the diverse geographic locations at the national level where there is internet access. However, in areas where internet access is limited the grantee will work with regional authorities and institutions to have a central place.
Target population: Existing health professionals medical doctors, midwives, nurses, health officers, lab technologists, pharmacists and other health cadres who are working at CDC supported health facilities in different regions of the country.
Contribution to the health system: Their effort is to provide technical and financial support to the Ethiopian Health Sector in order to achieve the goal of universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support. It will also helpful for massive scale-up of human resources for health accompanied by a concerted, standardized, and systematized program of training and education for both new and existing cadres of healthcare workers to ensure delivery of comprehensive and quality HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services.
Implementation strategy: It will be delivered as an online curriculum through a series of courses with individual topics presented in the form of modules. The CME program is structured in modules. Modules are positioned within the course so that the sequence of topics is logical and builds on the knowledge already gained. Participants progress sequentially from the first module to the next and not haphazardly from topic to topic.
The program will be disseminated throughout Ethiopia in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. Facilitators who will administer the education program will be identified at the community and regional levels. These facilitators will register participants, and provide them the educational content in the design and sequence described above. The facilitators will also transcribe the participants' responses to the questions that are part of each module.
Monitoring and Evaluation: The effectiveness of the course will be measured in a number of ways: the number of participants enrolled in the program per each learner level; annual growth trend in program participation per learner levels; pre- and post-test measures for learners; The number of participants who completed the program per each learner level; and demographic profile of participants including ethnicity, age, gender, education level, practice type, number of HIV patients in care at the practice, will show appropriate diversity among learners reflective of the populations served.
The Ethiopian HIV prevention, care and treatment program has been successfully rolled out to all the 11 regions of the country and decentralized across the tiers of the health network to provide the services at hospital, health center and community levels. A concerted, standardized, and systematized program of training and education for both new and existing cadres of healthcare workers is indispensible to ensure the delivery of comprehensive and quality HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services.
Currently available educational programs suffer from a number of deficiencies. In-service, live programs and workshops require that participants congregate at a pre specified time and space resulting in disruption of work and personal schedules as well as a considerable expense. Additionally, the effectiveness of didactic education delivered through an intensive short period to result in meaningful and lasting transfer of knowledge is highly doubtful. "Comprehensive HIV Education Program" is designed to combat these shortcomings in existing training approaches and bridge any possible skill and knowledge gap for efficient service delivery.
The goal of this Comprehensive HIV Education Program is to develop and implement an innovative, evidence-based, online curriculum designed with unique content for health care workers taking care of HIV-infected patients. The program will serve a variety of professionals across the care continuum, providing for a foundation of shared knowledge.
The Comprehensive HIV Education Program will be developed by Mayo Clinic in collaboration with the University of Maryland Institute of Human Virology. It will be delivered as an online curriculum through a series of courses with individual topics presented in the form of modules.
The program will be disseminated throughout Ethiopia in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the respective regional Health Bureau and other relevant partners as required. The program will have its own program evaluation and out-come measurement systems in place.
Targets: By the end of FY2011, the grantee has planned and starts implementing 2 courses with 12 modules each. The courses are "Essentials of HIV Medicine" and "Essentials of Antiretroviral Therapy". However, as it is a new program and in the under development process, the number of trainees is not targeted.
