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.
Years of mechanism: 2007 2008 2009
NEW/REPLACEMENT NARRATIVE
These funds will be provided to the International Laboratory Branch Partners Consortium in order to
continue the American Society of Microbiologists' (ASM) technical assistance to the Namibia Institute of
Pathology (NIP) to improve TB laboratory capacity.
ASM has provided short- and long-term technical advisors to work with the CDC laboratory technical
advisor, alongside NIP staff at the main laboratory in Windhoek, to improve their proficiency with TB
diagnostic testing. This assistance has included on-the-job training on TB-related laboratory equipment and
infection control practices. In FY 2009 COP, ASM will expand their support to peripheral NIP laboratories
and will work with the CDC technical advisor and a locally employed new TB laboratory technical advisor,
alongside NIP managers and technologists to strengthen the TB laboratories throughout Namibia.
New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity
Continuing Activity: 19400
Continued Associated Activity Information
Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds
System ID System ID
19400 19400.08 HHS/Centers for International 7360 4661.08 $150,000
Disease Control & Laboratory Branch
Prevention Consortium
Partners
Emphasis Areas
Health-related Wraparound Programs
* TB
Human Capacity Development
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $50,000
Public Health Evaluation
Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery
Food and Nutrition: Commodities
Economic Strengthening
Education
Water
Table 3.3.12:
This is a continuing activity in FY 2009 COP.
The International Laboratory Branch (ILB) consortium partners will continue to provide assistance to fill the
training gaps identified at the Namibia Institute of Pathology (NIP) as well play a key role in training of
trainers (TOT) in the following manner:
1. The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) will provide assistance with laboratory and
leadership management including strategic planning for the national laboratory system.
2. The American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) will support training on bio-monitoring assays such
as CD4 methods and instrumentation, chemistry and hematology, and further development of the training
resource center.
3. The Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) will help NIP prepare for laboratory accreditation
(SANAS), through assessment of NIP's quality management system practices through an active gap
analysis and effectiveness assessment program, and standardized laboratory methodology and quality
assurance.
The CDC GAP International Laboratory Branch has established a consortium of four US partners with
laboratory expertise. The partners include the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), American
Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP), American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and Clinical Laboratory
Standards Institute (CLSI). ASM's efforts are reflected under the HVTB program area as their primary areas
of focus and include tuberculosis smear microscopy, culture and drug susceptibility testing.
In FY 2007 COP, an in-service Laboratory Training Unit was established within NIP to provide training on
new technologies as well as refresher trainings. The ILB consortium partners will continue to provide short-
term technical trainings while NIP manages the logistics of the trainings to be conducted. Equipments and
reagents procurement for the trainings will be covered by NIP through their cooperative agreement with
USG.
In FY 2008 COP, in collaboration with the CDC Office of Global Health (OGH) Field Epidemiology and
Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) and the South African National Health Laboratory System (SA-
NHLS), the GAP ILB and TB/OI/HIV Program Team (T/HP) established a TB/OI/HIV Regional Laboratory
Training Center in South Africa, the African Center for Integrated Laboratory Training (ACILT). ACILT has
the explicit mission of training and certifying personnel in standardized techniques and promoting EQA for:
TB AFB smear microscopy (for both light and fluorescent microscopy); establishment of EQA programs for
TB AFB smear microscopy; mycobacterium culture (using both manual and automated methods); first-line
drug susceptibility testing (DST); OI/STI diagnosis; HIV diagnosis, monitoring, and EQA; and bio-safety and
infrastructure development. This regional laboratory training center will be used as appropriate to
complement Namibia training needs not provided through ILB.
Continuing Activity: 16241
16241 3858.08 HHS/Centers for International 7360 4661.08 $350,000
7358 3858.07 HHS/Centers for US Centers for 4389 1157.07 $0
Disease Control & Disease Control
Prevention and Prevention
3858 3858.06 HHS/Centers for US Centers for 3128 1157.06 $396,700
Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $400,000
Table 3.3.16:
