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
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.
The University of Cape Town prioritizes pharmacovigilance approaches that are most efficient at assessing the burden of drug-related morbidity and mortality on the healthcare system. The focus is on Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) in HIV infected patients, but the proposed multi-center hospital surveys will also evaluate serious ADRs in HIV negative patients. The aim, wherever possible, is to strengthen pharmacovigilance for all medicines.
The approaches are intended to identify gaps and future priorities of the national drug policy, strengthen and evolve the existing national pharmacovigilance structure, and strengthen the link between drug safety surveillance and improving the quality of care for patients infected with HIV/AIDS. The goals are to develop systems to assess the burden of clinically significant adverse drug reactions and to create a sustainable and responsive system for reporting of ADRs, which links ADR reporting to provision of information and clinical advice.
The objectives are:
a) To perform a gap analysis and landscaping exercise of existing pharmacovigilance structures and activities, in collaboration with the NDOH; to describe the frequency, nature and preventability of ADRs which result in hospital admission, and ADRs occurring during admission;
b) To determine to what extent ARV and anti-tubercular medicines contribute to the burden of adverse drug reactions resulting in hospitalisation and occurring in hospital; and
c)To strengthen the capacity to collect ART program surveillance data by establishing reasons for treatment-limiting toxicities in treating adults and children, broadly representative of the national program, with the possibility of expansion to further sites.
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.
This mechanism has no published performance targets or indicators.
