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: 2008 2009
This is a continuing activity from FY07. The only changes to the activity since approval in the FY07 COP
are:
• The Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) will provide laboratory-related
technical assistance (TA) in order to assure accurate clinical monitoring of patients in four existing sites and
assist in the development of five new sites: four Ministry of Defense (MOD) and one Ministry of Public
Security (MOPS) sites.
• AFRIMS will work with MOD staff and other PEPFAR partners to ensure greater linkages between
treatment sites and other services.
• AFRIMS will work with MOD and other PEPFAR partners on shifting tasks to ensure necessary support is
available for sustaining and expanding the treatment program.
FY07 Activity Narrative:
In an ongoing partnership, the US Pacific Command Center of Excellence (COE) and its prime partner, the
Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), will collaborate with the Vietnam Ministry
of Defense (MOD) to develop human and infrastructural capacity within the Vietnamese military healthcare
system to scale up high-quality ARV services to 1,300 people at MOD sites.
Through previous PEPFAR activities, AFRIMS has developed clinical and laboratory infrastructure and
technical capacity to support ARV within the MOD system. In FY07, the MOD is proposing that AFRIMS
extend this capacity to the high-prevalence province of Can Tho and to a central province. Components of
this activity will include continued logistical support (provision of test kits and reagents) for previously
established sites, and expansion of the MOD's HIV treatment support network. Two new sites will be added
in FY07, Military Hospital 121 in Can Tho City and Military Hospital 17 in Danang province, which will result
in military coverage of all provinces in the central region. DOD and MOD will jointly evaluate program needs
in Can Tho City and Danang province, and initiate a limited Counseling and Testing (CT) and blood safety
program.
A critical element for this year is the establishment of an appropriate quality management program. For
laboratories, this will include routine inspection, standard operating procedure (SOP) development, and
development of a unified system of "testing panels." Related activities include establishing a Laboratory
Quality Management Program at the Military Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology and at Military Hospital
175 in Hanoi with extensive training and interaction with AFRIMS Department of Retrovirology Quality
Assurance (QA) unit during the first year of operation.
AFRIMS will work with the DOD to develop a logistical system akin to the system that exists for ARV, to
ensure that appropriate diagnostic kits, reagents, and necessary consumables are available to the MOD
laboratories involved in PEPFAR.
AFRIMS also will use FY07 funds to continue to support capacity for the diagnostic and clinical monitoring
of the HIV/AIDS patients at military hospitals and preventive medicine laboratories. Clinical laboratories
supported under this activity will be linked to other activities within the DOD PEPFAR program: laboratory
infrastructure, VCT, blood safety, ARV drugs, and palliative care. This activity will contribute to the ARV
scale-up, as well as prevention and care and treatment activities, for both the military and civilian sectors of
the country.
