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.
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) has been collaborating with the Government of Ghana partners Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) and Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the assessment of high-priority most at-risk populations in Ghana, namely female sex workers (FSW) and men who have sex with men (MSM). UCSF worked with GAC, NACP and other stakeholders to identify existing data gaps and will collaborate in enhancing surveillance, program and special studies to help identify surveillance gaps to be addressed with in-country partners.
In Ghana, there is currently a potential for injecting drug use to exacerbate the current HIV epidemics in the country, where HIV prevalence is already high among other MARPs, if the needs of PWID are not addressed through a harm reduction approach with a comprehensive package of evidence-based interventions.
For this reprogrammed funds, UCSF will continue to provide technical assistance and mentoring to support the development and fielding of MARPs surveillance activities focusing on People who inject drugs (PWID). Working with GAC, UCSF will undertake formative assessment to highlight the social, economic and behavioral vulnerability to HIV of PWID. This data is essential for HIV prevention program among PWID and also provides the basis for the feasibility and sampling method for the proposed IBBS among PWID
The formative assessment should include a situational analysis (desk review) of PWID in Ghana, the mapping and description of PWID networks, a gender analysis for PWID and their partners, identification of gatekeepers and barriers to access services, the type and administration of recreational drugs used, risk perceptions on injecting drugs practices and sexual behaviors, social and support networks, stakeholders network, and type and locations of interventions for PWID and their partner, as well as the type of services needed such as NSP (type of syringes etc) . The project will build Ghanaian capacity for long-term PWID program simultaneously strengthening NGO and government partners and the services they deliver
