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: 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
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 Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University Research Collaboration (MU-JHU) began in 1988 as a collaboration to conduct research in the areas of prevention of mother to child HIV transmission and paediatric clinical trials in resource limited settings. MUJHU has conducted multiple perinatal HIV prevention trials including the landmark HIVNET 012 trial whose results were incorporated into WHO and MOH PMTCT guidelines for resource-limited settings around the world. Paediatric treatment trials have included the IMPAACT study P1060 which compared a Nevirapine (NVP) based versus a Lopinavir/ ritonavir based antiretroviral regimen in HIV infected children who were exposed and not exposed to NVP at birth. The results of this study informed the WHO paediatric HIV treatment guidelines for resource limited settings. MUJHU, working with the NIH MTN network have recently completed the VOICE trial using antiretroviral drugs oral tablets/microbicides to reduce heterosexual transmission and are conducting the ASPIRE study using antiretroviral vaginal ring to reduce HIV transmission.
Since 2000, MU-JHU successfully supported the Mulago Hospital PMTCT Program where over 33,000 antenatal attendees receive same-day HIV screening annually. The PMTCT program has reduced infant infection rates to <5% at 6-12 weeks. In addition, since 2003 MUJHU has provided care and antiretroviral treatment for over 800 individuals, including 250 children enrolled in the MTCT plus family based comprehensive HIV care and treatment program.
In COP 2014, MUJHU will conduct a birth defects surveillance study in Mulago Hospital.
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.
