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: 2012 2013 2014 2015
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.
Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) provides technical assistance (TA) to improve the quality of essential medicines. In Vietnam, since the start of the medication assisted therapy (MAT) pilot program in 2008, the methadone used in the program has been imported and funded by PEPFAR and starting in 2011, by PEPFAR and the Global Fund. In 2012, the target of 80,000 MAT patients by 2015 was included in the National Strategy. Due to the increasing demand for methadone, with 80,000 patients projected by 2015, the timely supply of medication has become a top priority for the government of Vietnam (GVN). The Ministry of Health (MOH) developed a plan in 2010 for local production of methadone from imported active pharmaceutical ingredients. However, the process to select qualified manufacturers was delayed and local production could not move forward. Thus, in 2013 MOH started exploring another approach to use local funding for local methadone procurement. PQM will continue to provide TA to MOH for local methadone procurement to ensure sufficient quality methadone at reasonable cost in effort to reduce HIV transmission among opiate users, improve health conditions and support reintegration into the community. In COP 14, PQM will expand TA to national (MOH, National Institute for Drug Quality Control (NIDQC)) and provincial levels (provincial AIDS centers, provincial health services). PQM will also continue supporting NIDQC and the Ho Chi Minh City IDQC on quality assurance to build capacity of these institutions to sample and test methadone locally. PQM will monitor and evaluate the progress of TA on semi-annual and annual bases using approved plans with PEPFAR and national program indicators, as well as monitor buget spending to ensure cost efficiency.
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.
