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: 2008 2009
The purpose of AgriAids is to address the practical & manageable aspects of HIV/AIDS on farm level, both
emerging farmers as well as commercial farmers: improving access to VCT, care - and treatment for farm
workers through innovative new partnerships and existing health care facilities. AgriAids has built up an
expanding network within the agricultural sector over the last 3 years, building up a "skills bank" and
knowledge base on issues such as awareness, stigma, treatment, advocacy, etc. The rationale of AgriAids
is to address the micro-level impact of HIV/AIDS on farm workers, which in turn will prevent the macro-level
impacts from taking effect. AgriAids acts as the "spider in the web" which connects farms in need of
services with supplying organisations. In this sense AgriAids will act as a "broker" between farms and
service providers, using its existing network but also through identifying and setting up new partnerships.
In 2004, AgriAids came into life in order to address this regional problem: reducing the direct effects of
HIV/AIDS on farm workers. This requires intervention on two levels (as explained in this proposal):
- Direct: facilitating rapid access to information, VCT, medical care - and ART for farm workers
- Indirect: lobbying the commercial agricultural sector to start viewing HIV/AIDS as an "occupational health
threat" and encourage CSR spending on care - an treatment programmes on farm level
A great deal of interaction is also called for with Government (notably Dept of Health & Agriculture), since
the plight of the farm worker is not high enough on the policy agenda.
The key strategy of AgriAids is to identify relevant medical service providers which can be linked to farms in
need. AgriAids will act as a "broker" between farms and service providers, using its existing network but
also through identifying and setting up new partnerships. This will result in an increase of farm workers
accessing VCT, care - and treatment. This approach has proven its viability recently: AgriAids partnered
with FPD since 2007 and several farm workers in the Brits area (North West) is now enrolled in the project
and the demand is already growing from other farms. FPD will be a key partner, since they support a large
number of public ART sites. AgriAids will therefore support the SA Government's National Strategic
HIV/AIDS plan, since it will create a demand for ART services in rural areas, but also facilitate access on
behalf of those who have traditionally been "sidestepped" by the healthcare system.
Some key outcomes of this project will be:
? Increase in farm workers accessing IEC campaigns on HIV/AIDS
? Increase in farm owners implementing HIV/Aids workplace policies, prevention and management plans on
farms
? Increase in health-seeking behaviour of farm workers
? Increase in NGO's making farm workers target groups
? Increase intervention from Dept of Health & Agriculture to mitigate the impact of the disease
? Increase in condom distribution and usage on farms
? Increase in female condom distribution and usage on farms
? Decrease in multiple concurrent sexual partners on farms
? Decrease in new infections
? Increase in number of farm workers/managers/owners doing VCT, starting ART and receiving care &
support
? Increase in organisations (public, private, NGO's, commercial, etc) adopting a common strategy, with
specific focus on Dept of Agriculture
? Creation of a replicable model for decentralized rural healthcare in a workplace setting
These indicators point towards the fact that the project activities will look at HIV/AIDS holistically, and that
activities will include workplace interventions, gender training, AIDS awareness, VCT, care - and ART.
