Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2011 2012 2013 2014

Details for Mechanism ID: 13374
Country/Region: Ghana
Year: 2014
Main Partner: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $0 Additional Pipeline Funding: $100,000

NOTE: The following is taken from summaries released by PEPFAR on the PEPFAR Data Dashboard. They are incomplete summary paragraphs only and do not contain the full mechanism details. When the full narratives are released, we will update the mechanism pages accordingly.

This is a continuing Mechanism for which no COP 14 funds will be applied. Activities are continuing with pipeline funds

Ghana Health Service (GHS) is responsible for hospital laboratories in ten regional and 170 district hospitals. The Global Fund is a key donor in the area of laboratory services for screening, treatment, and monitoring HIV/AIDS patients including drug resistance. Though these services exist, the provision of quality laboratory services and the conduct of reliable diagnostic testing are still challenges in Ghana. The quality management systems in the pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical process for laboratories have not been addressed as a whole.

In order to leverage and coordinate donor laboratory efforts, USG support is targeted to reinforce the basic scale-up assistance coming from the Global Fund and from PMI. USG support will build national capacity for quality management systems, trainings and the monitoring of laboratory quality using tools of EQA and Proficiency Testing (PT).

USG Ghana’s Partnership Framework (PF) supported cost-effective, quality laboratory practices to promote reliable and accurate results, thus contributing to effective patient care. This will in turn built a positive attitude by patients towards testing.

USG Ghana worked closely with the GOG to support four zonal and 10 regional laboratories in preparation for the certification/accreditation process. This included evaluating, developing, improving, and maintaining the laboratories' quality management system (managerial and technical) in compliance with CAP and ISO 15189 requirements with the goal of accreditation. This was a four year process which will be completed in early 2015.

Mechanism Allocation by Budget Code for Selected Year
Laboratory Infrastructure (HLAB) $0
Mechanism Target Information

Since COP2014, PEPFAR no longer produces narratives for every mechanism it funds. However, PEPFAR has now included performance targets or indicator information for each mechanism based on the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) system. The MER guidance is available on PEPFAR's website https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. Note that COP years 2014-2015 were under a previous version of the MER system and the indicators and definitions may have changed as of the new 2.0 guidance.

This mechanism has no published performance targets or indicators.