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: 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
The shortage of health professionals especially nurses, along with increased demand for health care as a result of TB/HIV, places severe limitations on South Africas ability to deliver effective services. Nursing Tutors lack appropriate knowledge and skills. The Nursing Capacity Building Program (NCBP), a multi country program, consists of two types of sub-projects: (a) general pre-service and/or in-service nursing training and capacity building has a special focus on HIV/AIDS, addresses a range of nursing issues, and has flexibility in addressing multi-sectoral, national, and local nursing issues and (b) the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI) - focuses on improving the quality and quantity of nurse and midwifery graduates through the strengthening of nursing/midwifery educational institutions. The NCBP helps build individual country level programs and collaborates with Nurses Councils and Associations to provide enhanced technical expertise and networking support for governments to develop expanded scopes of practice and increased nursing leadership. The goals of the program are identifying the needs of nursing education institutions, so that they can adequately train graduating nurses for clinical work, and improving the pre-service training. NCBP will work closely with the DOH in identified provinces in the country as well as with nurse educational institutions (NEI) to build on the Campus to Clinic Mentorship Program (CTCM) developed by the ICAP Nurse Capacity Initiative (INCI) and to improve the production, quality, and relevance of nurses and midwives to address essential population-based health care needs, including HIV and other life threatening conditions.
The continuing shortage of health professionals especially nurses, along with increased demand for health care as a result of TB/HIV, places severe limitations on South Africas ability to deliver effective services. Nursing Tutors who teach TB/HIV interventions in the nursing schools, lack appropriate knowledge and skills, and continues to contribute little to the training of nursing students in the area of TB/HIV.
The goals of the NCBP program in South Africa is identifying the needs of nursing education institutions, so that they can adequately train graduating nurses for clinical work and improving the pre-service and in-service training. The NCBP in South Africa helps build programs aimed at:
Identifying gaps in current pre-service and in-service nursing knowledge, clinical skills, system skills;
Building nursing school faculty competency;
Equipping nursing faculty with comprehensive HIV and TB training and confidence to teach these skills to nursing students; and
Provide nursing students with a comprehensive pre-service teaching before entering practice.
NCBP/SA will also collaborate with the South African Nursing Council and Associations to provide enhanced technical expertise and networking support for the South Africa government to develop expanded scopes of practice and increased nursing leadership in the country.
NCBP/SA will work closely with identified provincial Departments of Health as well as nurse educational institutions (NEI) in the provinces to expand on the Campus to Clinic Mentorship Program (CTCM) that was developed by INCI during 2009 and 2010, and to improve the production, quality, and relevance of nurses and midwives to address essential population-based health care needs, including HIV and other life threatening conditions, in low resource settings. Advisory Committees will be formed with heads of the relevant departments of health and senior representatives from each NEI. The program will employ full time staff that will be supervised by a senior nursing advisor. The program uses a case study approach covering knowledge, skills and systems thinking.
