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.
In response to national and PEPFAR priorities, Epicentre is establishing an HIV incidence surveillance system in Sisonke District of KwaZulu Natal (KZN) Province. The objectives of the surveillance system are to 1) establish population-level adult HIV incidence and monitor changes in incidence trends over time, 2) determine programmatic factors associated with changes in new HIV infections, and 3) validate laboratory HIV incidence estimation assays against cohort incidence measurements.
This surveillance system will employ a cross-sectional approach with an embedded cohort and is designed to be complementary to the national household survey. The system is being established where PEPFAR partners and the district government are scaling-up intensive, multi-pronged prevention interventions including MMC, HCT and comprehensive prevention services. It will collect localized and detailed information about the HIV response in the geographic area and have the ability to look more closely at associations in scale-up of prevention efforts on changes in HIV incidence in a “real world”, non-trial setting. It will also establish population-level incidence and prevalence baseline in order to monitor future trends as new bio-medical technologies become available including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) and vaginal or anal microbicides. In addition, it will provide the ability to validate different laboratory assays and algorithms against cohort-derived incidence as well as potentially introducing additional laboratory components. This activity is being conducted with the strong endorsement of the KZN provincial government and in close collaboration with government and PEPFAR partners in Sisonke District. No vehicles are being purchased.
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.
