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 2009
This activity relates to Blood Safety (#9049), EGPAF SI (#9001), and Technical Assistance/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (#9023).
The Rapid Strengthening of Blood Transfusion Program is a national program aimed at scaling- up blood transfusion activities to ensure efficient, effective, equitable, and affordable access to safe blood transfusion services throughout Zambia. The program is supported by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with a five-year grant that ends in March 2010.
The overarching goal of the program is to establish a sustainable, efficient and effective nationwide system for safe blood transfusion in Zambia and to prevent transfusion-related transmission of HIV, hepatitis, syphilis, and other blood borne infections. As a continuation from fiscal year (FY) 2006, the program will also seek to ensure equity of access to safe blood and blood products and to promote ethics in the collection, testing, and rational use of blood and blood products. The main focus of the program is to significantly improve blood donor retention, through increasing reliance on voluntary non-remunerated donors to 100% and increase the proportion of repeat donors to 85%, and by doing so, reduce HIV prevalence in donated blood from 3% to 1%. Among other activities such as maintaining appropriate project staff to supplement the shortages in permanent staff, enhancing donor counseling services to help convert first time donors into repeat donors, and procuring all the necessary inputs in an efficient and effective manner, an appropriate database and locator system to ensure that effective contact with donors is maintained must be established.
The Continuity of Care and Patient Tracking (CCPTS) is an ideal platform upon which to build a sustainable donor retention data system. In FY 2007, the United States Government will begin initial design consultations with ZNBTS to consider implementing the CCPTS to hold blood and blood donor related information. The vision is that each donor will be provided with a Care Card which can be used at other sites for health services as these cards will be issued nation-wide. Perhaps more critically, this will allow for more people to begin an electronic medical record file in the national system, decreasing the data entry time for clinical visits of these individuals and increasing available of information on blood type and even HIV incidence. Moreover, issuing Care Cards through the blood donor program will help ensure non-stigmatization of card recipients as issued in a non-discriminatory population. In FY 2007, issues such as confidentiality and the fit of the system to the blood collection approach will be reviewed.
Please see the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) SI narrative for more details about the Continuity of Care project, which involves a wide collaboration for national deployment of the system presently called CCPTS - Continuity of Care and Patient Tracking System.
