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.

Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre (WHWC) is an integrated health and welfare facility in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, which offers a variety of programs in response to the needs of our beneficiaries, most of whom live in informal settlements.

The HIV/AIDS program at WHWC started in 1996 in response to a need of our beneficiaries who were very ill and dying in the communities. USAID funding for this program was first received in 2004, through Right to Care. This program, entitled: “Innovative Approaches to Integrated Primary Health Care for Marginalized, At-Risk Populations in Informal Settlements in Urban South Africa,” has two goals: to build capacity and support for scale-up of effective and efficient models for HIV-related services in line with SAG priorities; and, to develop, evaluate, scale-up, and institutionalize innovations to inform SAG strategies for improving treatment outcomes among key populations such as pregnant women, infants, children, adolescents, people residing in informal settlements, and those who are HIV/TB co-infected. The objectives of the program are: to provide interim primary care, support, and referral services to residents of informal settlements, targeting an under-serviced population; to increase DOH service-delivery capacity in the WHWC catchment area; to implement effective cost efficient innovative approaches to integrate primary care for HIV and TB/HIV; to inform DOH on the evaluation findings; and, to inform SAG policy to facilitate the introduction of National Health Insurance. WHWC conducts operational research to inform the health sector nationally and internationally on effective and cost efficient innovations and institutionalizes such strategies.

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.