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: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
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.
Blood transfusion is an important strategy for the attainment of the national health objectives, and health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), related to maternal and child health, and to combating major communicable diseases, including HIV and AIDS, malaria, and TB. It is one of the most effective methods for prevention of the transmission of HIV and other Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTIs), including Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C (HCV), and Syphilis. The national blood safety program in Zambia is aligned to the National Health Strategic Plan 2011 to 2015 (NHSP 2011-2015), and the national multi-sector response ftamework for HIV and AIDS.
Main goal: To attain equity of access to safe blood and blood products throughout the country, in order to contribute to national health and development objectives.
The main strategies/activities will include: continued strengthening and scaling up of blood donor mobilisation, education, recruitment and retention; scaling up blood collections, towards meeting the national blood needs; strengthening post-donation counseling, and linkages to care, and treatment facilities; strengthening mandatory laboratory testing, and processing of blood; promotion of appropriate clinical use of blood and blood products; strengthening blood transfusion support to maternal health care, towards reduction of Maternal Mortality; strengthening quality assurance; scaling up staff training, and capacity building; strengthening monitoring and evaluation, and evidence-based decision making; promoting, and advocating for long-term sustainability of the blood safety program; and strengthen collaboration with other implementing partners.
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.
