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: 2013 2014 2015
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 Paediatric Enhanced Surveillance Study (PESS) is actively enrolling and following a cohort of HIV-infected children newly initiated on ART at five health facilities in the Eastern Cape (EC) Province, South Africa (SA). The study provides insights into overall outcomes for the larger pediatric patient populations in the province and SA that will contribute to the improvement of care for children with HIV. The study examines clinical, immunologic, virologic, metabolic, psychosocial, and behavioral outcomes for up to 400 children who are newly initiated on ART. The study’s primary objective is to describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of children enrolled in HIV care and treatment at the study facilities. The records review is designed to describe: demographic and clinical characteristics of children enrolled in HIV C&T at the study facilities; proportion of the children enrolled in HIV C&T at the study facilities who start treatment and are retained in care (6, 12, 24, 36, 48 months); proportion of children LTFU after enrollment in care and in those starting treatment; first line regimens prescribed to children; and proportion of children with documented deaths and causes of deaths and time to death (from enrollment). This work is designed in collaboration with the provincial health authorities of the EC, ICAP-SA and CDC-SA in support of the South African National ART Program for Children. The study findings will be disseminated to the DOH at national and provincial levels as well as to providers to inform decision making at policy level. The ICAP and CDC study teams are monitoring study implementation progress (subject enrollment, adherence to the study protocol) and ensuring adherence to the protocol and ethical approvals.
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.
