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.
This activity links to activities HLAB MOHSW 7758, 7779 NIMR, CDCBase 7834, APHL7682, AIHA7676, ASCP 7681, AMREF 7672, RPSO 7792, BMC 7685, ZACP 8224, DoD 7746; Track 1 ART CU7697/7698, EGPAF 7705/7706, HARVARD7719/7722, AIDSRelief 7692/7694, DoD7747, Blood Safety; CT NACP 7776, TB/HIV 7781, PMI, SCMS 8233, FHI 7712; SI NACP 7773, MOHSW 7761
The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), will participate and provide technical assistance to the Laboratory Infrastructure and Capacity Building program to impliment an effective laboratoryquality management system in Tanzania. In FY 2006 CLSI made an introuctory visit to Tanzania in order to familiarize itself with laboratory services in Tanzania and to conduct a series of meetings with key stakeholders and healthcare laboratory site visits over an approximately two week time period. The visit included a working session with CDC Tanzania and other key stakeholders to begin the plan for lab infrastructure and quality systems implementation to support & enhance current efforts. The plan was supported by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The plan outlined recommendations which included a need to implement a coordinated national laboratory quality management system, to ensure that the staff were given the necessary training to implement and sustain a quality management system, the necessity for a pre - service curriculum review to in cooperate Quality Systems training and to implement a set of minimum national lab standards based on existing internationally recognized quality standards appropriately adapted to Tanzania's needs and readiness.
In FY 2006, CLSI started planning in collaboration with MOHSW and CDC Tanzania on a suitable quality systems approach to meet Tanzania's Laboratory Quality Systems requirements . This has included support in the development of the National Quality Assurance Framework, the review of country developed Standard Opeartional Procedures and the development of Job Aids. In addition CLSI has introduced the Ministry of Health National Quality Assurance Coordinator to CLSI as an organization and facilitated networking with other stakeholders in the United States. This visit exposed the National Coordinator to National Public Health Laboratories with strong laboratory Quality Mangement SSystems in place.
In FY 2007 CLSI will complete process maps, standard operating procedures, guides, and job aides to provide a framework that will ensure consistency in testing performance and provide training opportunities as appropriate. In close coordination with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of both Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar, and USG, CLSI will provide assistance in establishing a program for developing, implementing, and maintaining a National External Quality Assurance Program (NEQAS). The program will include instruction on performing quality control, retesting of patient specimens, monitoring of in-laboratory error and proficiency testing. Additionally, the program will address competency checks and competency evaluations, and establish ongoing means to determine if work processes and procedures are functioning as needed to achieve quality goals and objectives. CLSI, in cooperation with Clinical Microbiology Proficiency Testing (CMPT; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), will design a program to foster twinning relationships that will link nationally designated laboratory quality assurance officers Tanzania to quality assurance experts in North America and throughout the world and ensure development of in-country leaders. This twinning will focus on the development and implementation of an updated quality assurance program for HIV testing and related testing for Tanzania. Measurable outcomes of the program will be in alignment with performance goals for National Laboratory Plan in support of the National HIV/ AIDS Care and Treatmentthe Progran of Tanzania. This will include establishment of nationally accepted laboratory guidelines and standards for laboratory testing and quality systems approach to providing services and building the capacity of in-country laboratory leaders with the requisite skill sets to implement the internationally accepted standards that are developed. Outcomes will be assessed to determine the number of Tanzanians trained versus success of implementation of EQA programs. In FY 2007, CLSI will also implement a monitoring and evaluation program for the quality management systems implementation. These activities are critical to building capacity and the sustainability of laboratory efforts in Tanzania to increase the proportion of HIV-infected people who are linked to appropriate prevention, care and treatment services through quality diagnostic services and to strengthen the laboratory capacity in Tanzania to accurately and reliably monitor the care and treatment services and assist in the development and implementation of an
effective HIV prevention interventions, surveillance and evaluation programs.
The additional funding requested will be used for mentoring and follow up on activities evolving from the gap analysis, competency checks and competency assessments commencing with the zonal referral hospital laboratories and working through the tiers of the national laboratory services network.
