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: 2011 2012 2013 2014
Through I-TECH this IM will support government of Vietnam to better understand and apply concepts and systematic approaches of development and implementation of standardized and interoperable health information systems. These activities will be conducted in HCMC, and will develop linked information systems recording care and treatment services delivered to HIV-positive patients, pregnant women and infants born to HIV-positive women.
With PEPFARs support, the Ho Chi Minh City Provincial AIDS Committee (HCMC PAC) has been working with I-TECH to carry out the first phase of a health management information system integration (HMIS) project designed to standardize all existing systems and allow for interoperability among all systems.
HCMC PAC has a variety of information systems, which will be linked to transfer patient information from point-of- entry to clinical care and treatment. This will improve service quality for patients and overall program effectiveness. The second project phase will start in April 2013, and the major focus will be to link existing PAC information systems, forming a citywide patient index system. I-TECH will expand upon two activities for the National Strategy on Continuing Medical Education (CME), selecting one or two priority activities of those developed in COP 11 to implement in partnership with the Department of Science and Training. This may include revision or drafting of specific policy documents, development of an accreditation system for CME. I-TECH will also work with Hanoi Medical University (HMU) to design and deliver distance learning CME.
The International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) has experience with assisting ministries of health, universities, and other organizations to develop a skilled health workforce and well-organized national health delivery systems. They have worked in Vietnam since February 2010 and initially focused on the provision of support for local governments use of international standards and health management information system (HMIS) development in country to ensure a more reliable and effective flow of data from points of service delivery to higher levels of monitoring and reporting. Since April 2011, I-TECH has focused on assisting the Provincial AIDS Committee of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC PAC) which has pioneered electronic HMIS to improve the quality of service delivery to HIV/AIDS patients. With PEPFARs support, the PAC has been working with I-TECH to carry out the first phase of a HMIS integration project with an aim to standardize all the existing systems, making it possible for interoperability among all systems. Besides providing regular remote and some onsite support, I-TECH will assign a local consultant to PAC who will coordinate the project with direction and supervision from I-TECH headquarters; recruitment for the position is in progress.Following completion of the first project phase, HCMC PAC will have a variety of information systems in place, which will be linked programmatically to transfer patient information from point of entry to clinical care and treatment and is expected to improve service quality for patients, as well as overall program effectiveness. Having reached that stage, the second project phase will start in April 2013, and the major focus will be to link existing PAC information systems together forming a citywide patient index system. I-TECH will also continue to provide technical assistance to the national HMIS technical working group that has recently been established to coordinate health information systems development based on defined standards and architecture. This group has the mandate to provide strategic and technical direction to health information management in Vietnam.
In Year 2 of the project, I-TECH will expand upon two activities for the National Strategy on Continuing Medical Education (CME), selecting one or two priority activities of those developed in COP 11 to implement in partnership with the Department of Science and Training. This may include revision or drafting of specific policy documents, development of an accreditation system for CME; establishing a database to track CME; or supporting specific training institutions at the provincial level. For the second activity, working with Hanoi Medical University (HMU) to design and deliver distance learning CME, the project will expand to provide support only to HMU to develop other HIV-related modules. HMU will take the lead and I-TECH will provide the tools, and/or TA to other learning institutions in the country to design, deliver and evaluate their own HIV-related CME courses.
