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 2016 2017 2018
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 goals of this project are to develop and strengthen the pre-ART surveillance system in SA and to improve access to care and treatment for patients who test positive. It will monitor disease progression, reduce morbidity through a package of preventive interventions, prepare patients for ART, and assist clinicians in identifying patients who are eligible for ART timeously. This project supports the PF goal that seeks to prevent new HIV infections through linking persons who test HIV positive to treatment, care, and prevention services early. It also seeks to strengthen and increase the effectiveness of the HIV/TB response by supporting and strengthening surveillance and the use of quality epidemiological data to inform policy, planning, and decision making. Phase 1 of the project, which focused on a gaps analysis to inform the project implementation, has been completed. “Surveillance of HIV Positive Pre-ART Persons in SA” is designed to characterize and monitor newly diagnosed HIV-positive persons from diagnosis until they are initiated on treatment. Newly diagnosed patients will be tracked through clinical record review over a period of two years to determine enrolment in HIV care, linkage to community based support, retention in pre-ART care, and timely initiation of ART services. The project will be implemented in 34 primary health care facilities in the three priority districts of Johannesburg, Gert Sibande and uThukela. Pre-ART outcomes will be measured at several intervals from diagnosis to treatment. The information generated through this surveillance will be useful in characterizing HIV programs, monitoring their success in linking and retaining newly diagnosed HIV-infected persons in Pre-ART, and informing policy decisions.
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.
