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.
To support the implementation of the laboratory management framework for accreditation, it is important to improve pre-service training curricula in laboratory diagnosis and monitoring of diseases with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS. USG Ghana's partnership Framework (PF), in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), will work with the TBD local medical technology school or academic institution to review the curricula and incorporate HIV standard of care tests, new technology, quality assurance and laboratory management in order to ensure that trainees from the schools are well-equipped to work in the national laboratory network upon graduation.
The To Be Determined (TBD) CDC International Lab Coalition partner will be granted funding to provide technical laboratory assistance through pre-service training curriculum development. The TBD partner will work with key stakeholders including university faculty and the medical technology school to conduct a pre-service gap analysis and develop a consensual work plan for the revision of curricula to aid in teaching laboratory focused methods and courses. The TBD partner will ensure inclusion of information on new technologies, instrumentation and procedures, and provide training to faculty on quality assurance and new technologies in the clinical laboratory. The TBD partner will also develop supplemental materials, exercises, enhanced exams, timetables and activities; and will also organize pre-service training designed to provide the faculty with newly developed curriculum and exercises. The TBD partner trainers will employ participatory methods for interactive learning and promotion of teamwork in the training of trainers workshop for 25 key faculty members and directors of schools of medical technology.
The TBD partner will facilitate twinning of local academic institutions with another educational institution supported by the TBD partner to provide information sharing related to faculty interactive teaching techniques. It will provide mentorship and technical assistance to the school trainers for the reviewed curriculum by pairing with faculty from U.S. universities.
The twinning partnership will build the capacity of the country's regional laboratories to provide quality HIV/AIDS diagnostic services to patients. Through this mentorship program, laboratory personnel and students will increase their knowledge, practical skills and confidence to provide quality up-to-date HIV/AIDS diagnostic services. This will result in a larger pool of competent laboratory technicians to sustain the country's laboratory services.
