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: 2008 2009
Activities conducted at identified sites include HIV counseling & testing and concurrent HIV prevention and
marketing activities. Trend Setters* will undertake the HIV prevention & marketing activities include placing
banners, canvassing the area on foot, distributing pamphlets and invoking discussion with pedestrians,
conducting information education sessions on HIV&AIDS, projecting culturally appropriate abstinence and
be faithful messages, performing HIV&AIDS-related dramas and performances, establishing "post test
clubs" and condom demonstrations/distribution. Post Test clubs (PTC) is a model used in Uganda which
helps PLWHA's cope with infection and both HIV positive and negative members adopt and maintain an
effective prevention behavior. Formation of PTC can assist in changing the social norms in support of HIV
risk reduction. (UNAIDS pub.20 1999).
HIV prevention activities especially emphasize fidelity, though are balanced with abstinence messages,
especially targeted towards youth, and condom promotion (i.e. correct and consistent use of male or female
condom) in order to reach as many people in the target audience as possible. Management will ensure
PEPFAR regulations are strictly followed.
Education and marketing is essentially to dispel myths and ensure the right information is out there. These
activities enable people, who may have been unable to overcome fear or stigma to encourage knowing their
HIV status, which ultimately can prolong or save their lives and possibly the lives of others.
Teenager programmes (13 -18) will focus mainly on abstinence or delayed sexual encounter and encourage
those who are sexually active to pledge abstinence once again. Programmes will include prevention and
living positively programmes to promote maintaining a negative HIV status and living positively to ensure
quality of life.
Summary of Proposed Activities:
LifeLine North West Mafikeng Centre seeks to implement a mobile HIV counseling & testing unit, in the
Central and Bophirima districts of the North West Province, building on the experience of our Rustenburg
affiliate that operates in the Bojanala District of the North West Province. LifeLine Rustenburg is currently
funded by PEPFAR (2007) to implement the mobile VCT service in the Bojanala District.
The project addresses U.S.Government's HIV/AIDS objectives in South Africa by:
1) Improving access to and providing HIV counseling & testing services, 2) Implementing HIV prevention
activities by promoting the ABCs of prevention, abstinence, being faithful, sexual behavioral change within
the context of cultural norms, and correct and consistent male or female condom use, and 3) Improving the
quality of life of those infected and affected by HIV & AIDS..
Geographic Reach: Central & Bophirima Districts
The administration and management of the project is based at the LifeLine centre in Mafikeng while the
mobile units will service ten identified sites in the Central and Bophirima Districts, five in each
Districts.Bophirima is rural while Central is a mixture of urban and rural communities, 20% of the provincial
population (3.8M) reside in Central while 18% live in Bophirima however, Bophirima is the largest district
and the population is very dispersed.
Target Populations
The identified sites will be locations which are not adequately served by clinics and in which high barriers to
individuals' learning their HIV status remain. The sites identified are villages and farming communities that
are far from clinics and/or are generally serviced by mobile clinics intermittently. Population will everyone,
however more specifically farm workers, youth and the overall rural population.
Proposed Contribution to the HIV and AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa (2007 -2011) and
Operational Plan for Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Care, Treatment and Management for South Africa
The project contributes the strategic and operational plans through promotion of ; HIV Counseling and
Testing; care and support for HIV infected individuals and their families.
The project activities fall into three categories that are strongly interconnected in their implementation and
objectives. Firstly, a wide array of HIV prevention & marketing activities are designed to increase the
uptake of services, disseminate factual, comprehensive information on HIV&AIDS, and encourage behavior
that prevents HIV transmission. Secondly, the work of the mobile unit includes conducting HIV testing &
counseling at designated identified sites in the two districts, five per district. Lastly, LifeLine activities
involve intensive human & organizational capacity development, both within LifeLine and through activities
with six CBOs/FBOs with an additional two to be added in the second year.
