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.
Activity: Strategic Information support to NIHE
As the leading disease surveillance institute in Vietnam, the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) will continue gathering and analyzing epidemiological data to inform policy and programs and contribute to human capacity development in epidemiology. PEPFAR will continue to support NIHE to leverage its role as head of Vietnam's HIV/AIDS surveillance subcommittee, NIHE will develop strategies and guide surveillance disease monitoring with a focus on:
Strengthening the national sentinel surveillance system through continued training, quality assurance and control, and improved data management systems, and widespread use of surveillance data.
Biological and behavioral surveillance among risk populations not yet routine monitored, such as clients of sex workers and partners of IDUs.
Size estimation of most at risk populations (IDU, FSW, high risk MSM) in additional provinces where the HIV epidemic concentrates.
Technical support for national monitoring and evaluation activities, supporting VAAC in operationalizing the national M&E framework.
Continued engagement with international technical working groups to test incidence assays and routine incidence surveillance in Vietnam using stored sentinel surveillance and integrated biological and behavioral surveillance.
Modeling national estimates and projections of HIV infection.
Capacity development around second generation surveillance: building technical capacity within the HIV/AIDS surveillance department at NIHE and other regional institutes; skills building for implementers at the provincial level, including basic epidemiology courses; and applications of novel and improved methodologies.
Integrating HIV with other disease surveillance; coordinating donors and other stakeholders to make efficient disease surveillance systems and encourage a platform for information sharing.
/ Continuing Laboratory Program Activity (under a new Coag).
/ HIV EQA Serology program, includes panel production, data analysis, report generation, training for participating sites
/ Development of an HIV diagnosis Internal Quality Control (IQC) Program.
/ Phase II HIV Test Kit Evaluation, conducted at 3-4 field sites.
/ HIV Diagnostic Training, package development and delivery.
