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.
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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.
SUMMARY:
Salesian Missions will conduct a voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) Life Choices project serving youth and adults in the Western Cape.
BACKGROUND:
The vision of Life Choices is to reach youth with a culturally accepted abstinence and be faithful (AB) message early in their lives and to support the maintenance of positive behavior changes during adolescence and adulthood through the involvement of community mentors, informed parents, and organized peer groups. Life Choices has also networked with an established organization in order to use their mobile VCT in the project's targeted High Schools. However, Life Choices' capacity to carry out VCT services is much higher than the numbers its' partner organization has been able to meet. As a part of the successful education and peer training programs, the belief of normalization and importance of testing has been made a norm with all the youth, thereby creating an unprecedented demand. This program hopes to meet the demand created within youth to know their status, and to take advantage of Life Choices' vast network within the Western Cape area and implement VCT with youth in the Western Cape area (rural and urban) via a mobile VCT unit.
ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS:
The main goals of this project are to: 1) increase access to youth friendly VCT by youths and young couples 15-24 years in high schools; 2) increase access to mobile VCT during the weekend in churches and; 3) build an indigenous, sustainable response to the national HIV epidemic in South Africa through a rapid expansion of innovative, culturally appropriate, high-quality, youth friendly HIV/AIDS VCT services.
Salesian Missions will expand VCT services to youth by: 1) integrating VCT into Life Choices; 2) offering high schools and churches in the Western Cape Province with access to mobile VCT services; 3) improving the quality of youth friendly VCT services at existing VCT sites through training and mentoring of service providers and other clinic staff; 4) increase community mobilization within schools and churches via peer educators, educators, parents and community leaders; and 5) offering psychological support and counseling for onward care and support services to clients diagnosed as HIV infected.
Expandinf CT services contribute towards the PEPFAR 2-7-10 goals.
