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.
USG PEPFAR-Nigeria in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and the Health Research, Inc./New York AIDS Institute plan to continue the implementation of a quality improvement program patterned after the HIVQUAL program operative in the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute. This will be referred to as the HIVQUAL-N.
With the current scale up of treatment and care services in Nigeria both in terms of states reached and scale down from tertiary to secondary and primary health centres there has arisen the need to ensure that established desired quality of services are provided to all within the continuum of care.
The quality improvement (QI) concept which is currently receiving Global attention and currently in use in other PEPFAR countries will build capacity to support clinical data collection and analysis, linking activity to quality improvement. It will serve as a flexible and user friendly information system and the adapted software will be responsive to local clinical guidelines and can expand to meet multiple program requirements including other diseases and conditions.
Additionally the program will also build capacity for improving care at the established points of care through QI methods which encourage provider initiated performance measurement and response with a QI plan.
Sustainability issues will also be addressed as early ownership of the program and the culture of provider initiated quality improvement will be promoted. Utilizing peer reviews and zonal/National platforms for comparison of quality of services offered across service delivery points, will allow for evidence based modifications to Care and treatment services in Nigeria.
