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 narrative covers COP14 and COP15 activities to be implemented by the Sustaining Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Response through Partnerships (SCHARP Plus) project. Under PEPFAR, the United States Government has awarded AHNi the five year SCHARP Plus Project which commenced July 1, 2013. The goal of the project is to attain sustainable local partnership of comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment program in Ogun and Oyo state by the end of project period. To achieve this goal, the project will pursue the following objectives: 1) primary prevention of HIV infection; 2) improve the quality of care and treatment of HIV/AIDS, STIs, and related opportunistic infections and 3) improve stewardship by Nigerian institutions for the provision of high-quality comprehensive HIV/AIDS services.

AHNi proposes practical, cost-effective, and sustainable interventions and programs to continue the provision of HIV/AIDS services initiated under the PEPFAR funded HHS/CDC. As a Prime, AHNi will emphasize doing more with limited resources at its disposal. Most trainings of HCWs will be facility based. AHNi will continue to advocate to government to address human resource gaps and provision of infrastructure in supported sites.

SCHARP Plus is designed with a focus on service integration; local ownership; and quality - with all interventions delivered within the GON’s strategic health framework and structure that will engender ownership and fast tract transitioning of responsibilities to the government. Program and technical staff will work hand in hand with providers and managers at all levels of the health system to build their capacity “on the job” through program planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of program implementation.

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.