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: 2007 2008
This activity is linked to OHPS MOH/VAAC (9414).
Funding in this activity will be used to conduct a health workforce human capacity assessment for HIV/AIDS programs in Vietnam.
In consultation with the OGAC human capacity technical working group, PEPFAR will support the Government of Vietnam (GVN) to conduct a health workforce human capacity assessment to identify the human resources needed to achieve HIV/AIDS prevention and care program goals, to document the gaps in resources which cannot be realigned from the overall workforce and to determine how to identify, train and sustain health workers engaged in HIV/AIDS services without compromising the budget or manpower for other health services.
Current MOH, Provincial Health Department, and related ministries charged with working in HIV/AIDS have stretched human resource capacity. Despite GVN commitment to increasing the public health workforce, there is substantial variation in the degree to which public health positions are available within Vietnam, particularly at the provincial and district levels. Moreover, those few health professionals that are available are challenged to provide a range of public health services including Avian Influenza, outbreak control and HIV/AIDS. This need has been exacerbated by the increase in PEPFAR funding coupled with changes in host nation policies, including the provision of free ARV drugs. Consequently, patient loads and demand for treatment, counseling and testing, care, and prevention services in clinics have increased substantially. Given GVN ministries, including Health, and Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, are the most inherently sustainable organizations implementing HIV/AIDS programs, it is important to assure that PEPFAR programs do not inadvertently compromise this sustainability.
In the medium-term, the GVN will need to increase staffing levels and strengthen human capacity in the areas of basic public health sciences, analytical assessment, policy development, program planning, communication, financial and program management, leadership, and community development to adjust the structure of the health care system to address the HIV/AIDS crisis. The proposed human capacity assessment will assist in developing a human resources strategy to address the needs identified in the assessment.
In the short-term, in addition to the proposed assessment, PEPFAR will support strategies to allow quality program expansion to take place including formulation of a short and long term human capacity development strategy hiring temporary contract staff, providing targeted incentives, supporting short and long-term training, and funding overtime.
Plus up will support funds approved in COP07 to expand assessment of health workforce human capacity including additional workforce estimates and service delivery time analysis. Further, it will be used to support development of implementation plan, based on recommendations from the assessment. Support can be given to perform initial steps of the implementation plan once the plan is approved.
Targets
Target Target Value Not Applicable Number of local organizations provided with technical assistance for HIV-related policy development Number of local organizations provided with technical assistance for HIV-related institutional capacity building Number of individuals trained in HIV-related policy development Number of individuals trained in HIV-related institutional capacity building Number of individuals trained in HIV-related stigma and discrimination reduction Number of individuals trained in HIV-related community mobilization for prevention, care and/or treatment
Key Legislative Issues Wrap Arounds
Democracy & Government
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