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.

Baylor Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) is a Public Private Partnership. The goal is to reduce HIV-related morbidity and mortality in infants, children and adolescents using a family-centered approach. Objectives include: provision of pediatric HIV care and treatment services; expanded pediatric HIV case finding; address human resources capacity gaps and community mobilization of pediatric HIV services. The objectives link with PF Goals 1 & 5. The program is implemented in 11 regions of the Lake & Southern Highlands zones. In the last 5 years, BIPAI built capacity of health care workers in pediatrics HIV care in the Lake and southern highlands zones through clinical attachment and couching at its centers of excellence (COE) and provided outreach services. In the final year, BIPAI will focus in early case identification through provider initiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC) at facility and link them to treatment. BIPAI will be the national technical assistance provider to MOHSW & PEPFAR/T implementing partners throughout the country through Children’s COE. BIPAI uses a cost-efficient training model by training regional and zonal level trainers to become master trainers, who cascade training to lower level facilities. The program will support task sharing approaches and improve work productivity. The project will collaborate with implementing partners to achieve efficiencies in service delivery and capacity building. Transitional strategies include partnering with tertiary health institutions to provide leadership in pediatric HIV and incorporate program activities into zonal, regional, and comprehensive council health plans. The M&E plan will track routine quality data and build on national HIV M&E. An end of program evaluation will be conducted.

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.