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.
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: AIDSTAR will be required to identify and build planning and managerial
capacity of local partners as well as strengthen local technical capacity to deliver high-quality
comprehensive AB prevention programs and services aimed at promoting partner reduction and
preventing transactional sex. Specific activities will entail the identification and building the capacity of
indigenous faith-based and community-based organizations (FBOs and CBOs) to provide high quality
prevention programming that will bring about effective behavior change as it relates to reduction of
multiple sexual partners and transactional sex. In addition, AIDSTAR will undertake community based
activities to facilitate normative changes that enhance the practice of abstinence and mutual fidelity.
These activities will address adults, and men in particular, with messages that promote fidelity,
discourage male norms that encourage risky behaviors, encourage partner reduction through risk
reduction messages and personal risk perceptions skills. Activities will also focus on unmarried young
men and women across the board who are at high risk owing to contextual factors (domestic workers,
street vendors, etc.). Messages will be tailored to each target group. Activities to prevent transactional
sex and or protect youth involved in transactional sexual relationships will focus on skills based HIV
education for vulnerable young women and young men with broad based community activities that create
supportive normative environment for the practice of abstinence and fidelity. Influencers of young people,
including parents, teachers, religious leaders and community leaders will also be reached. These
interventions will be reinforced with mass media activities that highlight the importance of mutual fidelity,
risk behavior reduction and avoidance of transactional sex. AIDSTAR will concentrate activities in areas
that will be identified through secondary analysis of national behavioral data generated through the
Project SEARCH data triangulation exercise and the NARHS+ survey. AIDSTAR will utilize a minimum
package of interventions identified from a pool of best practices in the national prevention plan to provide
high quality prevention interventions for the population group identified. These interventions include: peer
education interventions, peer education plus models, workplace programs, community awareness
campaigns, school based program approaches, intervention programs to address issues of vulnerability,
provision of STI management, and infection control measures in clinical settings. The national prevention
plan 2007-2009 recommends that a minimum of three of these interventions be used to reach each target
while mass media activities will serve as reinforcement. The AIDSTAR prevention program will build
capacity of community-based, faith-based, and other non-governmental organizations (CBOs, FBOs and
NGOs) to provide this minimum package intervention for the specific population groups. Technically this
will entail familiarizing the organizations with the minimum package modules and adopting a program
approach that ensures delivery of the package. AIDSTAR will reach 97,500 individuals utilizing minimum
package interventions that promote abstinence and/or being faithful (AB) with 32,500 individuals reached
through interventions that promotes abstinence only (a subset of total reached with AB). 500 individuals
will be trained to promote HIV/AIDS prevention programs and 25 organizations will receive capacity
building toward high quality prevention programs for identified high risk population. AIDSTAR will
document and disseminate best practices; successful and innovative approaches with lessons learned
and share these with their implementing agencies as well as other partners within the PEPFAR program
in Nigeria. In COP 09, a particular focus will be on lessons learned on effective approaches for improving
linkages between clinical services and community based services to provide basis for strengthening the
prevention with positives programs and other specific interest high risk groups programs. Implementation
will be through NGOs, CBOs and FBOs whose capacity has been built by AIDSTAR and who have the
capacity for rapid scale up. Within the initial 6 months of implementation, capacity-building for provision of
prevention (AB) services for identified FBOs and CBOs will be carried out, followed by development of
materials on prevention of cross generational and transactional sex. AIDSTAR interventions will be in line
with national priority plan and national prevention plan. Geographic location will be negotiated with the
GON with South-South, South-East and North-Central states considered as prime regions for selection,
considering gaps in the PEPFAR response and based on the location of identified high risk groups from
review of behavioral surveillance data of prevalence among these groups. CONTRIBUTIONS TO
OVERALL PROGRAM AREA The programs and activities implemented will increase the reach of AB
interventions into epidemiologically important populations to better address gaps in coverage and to
better address specific behaviors within underserved populations. This AIDSTAR prevention program,
delivered through implementing agencies, will contribute to strengthening and expanding the capacity of
the Nigerian response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and increasing the prospects of meeting the Emergency
Plan's goal of preventing 1,145,545 new infections. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES This activity also
links with OVC and SI activities (i.e., the Project SEARCH activity for data informed program design).
POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED: Populations targeted in these AB activities will include younger
unmarried men and women and their corresponding figures-of-influence (parents, teachers and religious
leaders) and adult males to better address issues around cross-generational and transactional sex. KEY
LEGISLATIVE ISSUES ADDRESSED: Key legislative issues will address male norms and behaviors,
and increased equity and access to information and services for women. EMPHASIS AREAS: The
service delivery component will focus on information, education, and communication in the community
and will build linkages with other sectors and initiatives.