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
A HIV behavioral surveillance (household survey) will be conducted that will produce HIV prevalence and trend data since 2002. In addition, a new surveillance system will be established to estimate maternal mortality and improve death/birth notification systems. Data from the 2014 household survey will serve as a basis for the evaluation of the NSP for HIV and AIDS and STI 2012-2014 and will provide the baseline information for tracking the progress and impact of the next NSP 2012-2016. It will also enable the South African government to monitor and assess key health outcomes for the population that will provide data used in developing HIV prevention and treatment programmes for South Africa. The maternal/infant mortality surveillance will provide baseline data and allow comparison of South Africa with other countries. These projects meet the partnership framework goal of building South Africas capacity to collect and use surveillance data and manage national HIV/AIDS programs by expanding HIV/STI/TB surveillance programs and strengthening laboratory support for surveillance and supports PEPFARs efforts to develop, implement, and evaluate new HIV surveillance activities, where necessary, or to strengthen current HIV surveillance activities in South Africa.
HSRC is a parasatatal mandated by the SAG to provide epidemiological data useful in directing the Countrys efforts in designing evidence based interventions. For FY 2012 it will be funded mainly to work towards conducting an HIV behavioral and prevalence surveillance (population-based survey) and establish maternal and infant mortality surveillance. These activities support the partnership framework goal that seeks to strengthen the effectiveness of the HIV /TB response by supporting/strengthening surveillance and the use of quality epidemiological data to inform policy, planning, and decision making. The 2014 survey will be the fifth in a series of national population-based surveys conducted for surveillance of the HIV epidemic every 3 years since 2002 in South Africa. The South African HIV population-based survey, unlike other surveys, includes children less than 15 years and adults aged 50 years and older and has provided planning data used in these age groups. In addition, these surveys sample participants from all races and locality types as well as in all nine provinces of South Africa. Data from the 2014 household survey will serve as a basis for the evaluation of the NSP for HIV and AIDS and STI 2012-2014 and will provide the baseline information for tracking the progress and impact of the next NSP 2012-2016. The maternal and child mortality surveillance, which aims to improve the design of the birth notification system by capturing data on factors associated with birth outcomes will focus on: establishing a project committee for scientific guidance and leadership of the project, evaluation of the existing birth and death notification systems and vital registration system, training of 70 fieldworkers per province on the implementation of the evaluation tools, conducting an assessment of the contributory causes of under-reporting at the different levels of collecting and processing of data related to births and infant and maternal deaths in the country, and mapping out of the service infrastructure from community to national level to assess availability and its ability to collect reliable and accurate information.
