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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This is a continuing activity. The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) has been providing technical assistance to the Ethiopia Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI) and the national lab system since 2005 with the primary goal of strengthening national public health laboratory services. ASCP support has been crucial for expansion of lab monitoring services (such as CD4) to support ART services in Ethiopia. The ASCP program will continue to focus on laboratory strengthening, specifically in the areas of improving pre-service training within local universities, supporting laboratory accreditation efforts, and addressing laboratory human resource in-service training needs through the development of continuing medical education and certification. ASCP's continuing medical education activities target specific laboratory professionals not reached by other USG activities.All of ASCPs technical assistance promotes and enables long-term sustainability of the Ethiopias laboratory services as it relates to HIV/AIDS service delivery and supports the GOE efforts to strengthen the laboratory system nation-wide. In addition, ASCP supports the goals of the GOE's National Strategic Plan (SPMII) and is aligned with the goals of the GOE and USG HIV/AIDS Partnership Framework and Global Health Initiative. ASCP has in place a system to monitor and report on program performance.
In prior years, ASCP supported national efforts to standardize pre-service training curriculum for medical laboratory education. ASCP provided technical assistance for the development of a clinician handbook and prepared the national reference laboratory for international accreditation. ASCP rolled out the Strengthening Laboratory Management Towards Accreditation (SLMTA) training and conducted three rounds of SLMTA workshops. Under COP2012, ASCP curriculum experts will continue to work with the Ethiopian medical laboratory schools to provide technical support and coaching to laboratory school instructors in the practical teaching of hematology and chemistry courses. USG CME programs have previously been targeted towards physicians. The ASCP program specifically addresses the needs of and targets laboratory-related professionals (e.g. instructors, laboratory techs). In collaboration with the Ethiopian Medical Laboratory Association, ASCP will develop a continuing medical education (CME) certification program for laboratory school instructors and professionals which is not included in any current CME activities. ASCP curriculum experts will assist with the actual teaching of classes and in developing new lectures based on school-specific needs or continuing education training needs. ASCP will provide reference books, atlases and manuals for the pre- service laboratory training activities and support the development of the modules for chemistry, hematology and CD4 training that will be used for continuing education of laboratory workers. The updated curriculum in modular form will be used for nation-wide training. Lastly, ASCP will support the implementation of the national WHO/AFRO accreditation scheme initiative by providing a series of task-based SLMTA training with follow up post training to assess performance improvement. ASCP will assist in conducting post SLMTA assessment of laboratories and evaluating the overall WHO/AFRO accreditation effort.
