Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2013 2014 2015

Details for Mechanism ID: 16835
Country/Region: South Africa
Year: 2014
Main Partner: African Society for Laboratory Medicine
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $130,000 Additional Pipeline Funding: $809,276

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 African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) is a pan-African member organization for laboratory professionals that aims to improve health care in Africa through strengthening laboratory services which are pivotal to disease diagnosis, epidemiological surveillance as well as effective treatment and monitoring. To achieve the organizational aims of uplifting healthcare in Africa, ASLM partners with governments, international, regional and national organizations. ASLM major goals include training and certification of laboratory professionals and clinicians, enrollment of laboratories into the WHO quality improvement program as well as development of national public health reference laboratories to facilitate the training, evaluation of diagnostic technologies and development of evidence-based policies. These highlighted goals will foam the basis through which CDC, in collaboration with ASLM, will render support to the National Health Laboratory Services and National department of Health.

Mechanism Allocation by Budget Code for Selected Year
Laboratory Infrastructure (HLAB) $130,000
Mechanism Target Information

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.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $50,000
Human Resources for Health $50,000