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
SUMMARY:
ACTIVITY 1: Clinical Associates Program
This program is a foundation for building sustainable services and other interventions. The South Africa
national Department of Health, in joint collaboration with three South African universities (Pretoria, Walter
Sisulu and Witwatersrand), has adopted the training of clinical associates which is a new three-year degree
program to address the human resource crisis in health care. The proposed program is meant for hiring of
trainers and to train the new cadre of healthcare providers that will provide support for the doctors and
nurses and relieve them to carry out more specialized care.
ACTIVITY 2: Youth and HIV Prevention
The NDOH has ongoing efforts to promote abstinence and being faithful strategies amongst youth in the
country. This is done in joint collaboration with NGOs that render HIV/ AIDS prevention through abstinence
and being faithful messages.
ACTIVITY 3: Health Systems Strengthening
The NDOH plans to strengthen the entire health system. This involves strengthening human resources
through workforce planning and rationalization. The human resources information systems improvement
approach aims to manage the public health workforce by addressing information deficiencies and
inaccuracies. The human resources management approach sets policies and procedures to minimize
ineffective human resource management systems that demoralize health workers and stand in the way of
producing desired results. These approaches will develop more supportive work environments by
strengthening human resource competencies and managing facilities more effectively to improve
productivity and better service delivery. They address worker shortages that are due to high staff turnover,
high mobility, low worker retention, skill mix imbalances, uneven distribution, and HIV/AIDS morbidity and
mortality among health workers. These processes also involve the improvement in health information
systems through alignment with the HIV & AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa, 2007-2011. The
plan is to allocate adequate capacity (human resource and financial) and to develop and implement
effective workforce recruitment, training and retention strategies to ensure improved health service delivery
and improved health information systems.
New/Continuing Activity: New Activity
Continuing Activity:
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