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.
NEW/REPLACEMENT NARRATIVE
This area has one component: AIHA's support for a "twinning" arrangement between the Polytechnic of
Namibia and the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences to deliver an undergraduate program for medical
technologists, the first in Namibia.
In an activity initiated in 2007, PEPFAR will continue to support an arrangement between the Polytechnic of
Namibia (PoN) and the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS) through the AIHA Twinning
Center. Human capacity development remains a major challenge in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Namibia.
With a limited number of Namibian medical technologists available to carry out HIV- and HIV-related
laboratory testing, there was a critical need to more effectively and expeditiously train students with an
interest and aptitude for this field.
UAMS was competitively selected as PoN's twin and continues to assist PoN with curriculum development
and classroom instruction. This effort will allow for further PoN capacity building, as the guidance shared
through this twinning effort will benefit PoN as they continue to expand their allied health programming.
This activity will also lessen the "brain drain" of medical technologists from neighboring countries.
Initially intended as a one-year arrangement to assist with start-up activities, the twinning will enter its third
year with FY 2009 COP support. Support is continuing because of the overwhelming demand for this
program; 400 applicants applied for 20 slots in the first year. PEPFAR support will likely be phased out in
FY 2010 COP, as the first class of medical technologists graduates.
In addition to PEPFAR support, the PoN program is receiving technical assistance, equipment, and other
resources from a variety of stakeholders, including the Namibia Institute of Pathology (the parastatal
national laboratory) , PathCare (the largest private laboratory in Namibia), and the Namibia Blood
Transfusion Service.
AIHA's role in the partnership is primarily one of coordination and engaging other organizations, such as the
American Society of Clinical Pathologists, to provide additional technical support. UAMS continues to
provide lecturers, jointly hosts digital video conference training aired in both Namibia and the US, assists
with curricula development, and provides guidance on program administration. In addition to their work on
the medical technologist program, UAMS is also providing in-kind guidance to PoN on expanding both the
environmental health and emergency medicine programs.
New/Continuing Activity: New Activity
Continuing Activity:
Emphasis Areas
Human Capacity Development
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $302,000
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
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