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.
The International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) was founded in 2002 by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to share lessons learned from the U.S. domestic AIDS Education and Training Centers. I-TECH works primarily on activities that contribute to the achievement of PEPFAR. Working at the invitation of ministries of health and the United States Government, I-TECH supports the development of comprehensive training systems for health care workers in regions hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic. Ongoing mentoring activities, pre-services education, infusion of multimedia into training, and distance learning are high priority teaching methodologies for I-TECH. Through its primary home at the University of Washington in Seattle, and with support from its main partner at the University of California, San Francisco, I-TECH provides its network access to rich clinical and technical expertise.
The overall goal of our program is to develop skilled health care work force and strong health care delivery systems in Zimbabwe and across its wide network in the sub-Saharan region.
The objectives of our program are: 1) Production/Update of standardized training materials for use at national level to improve the quality of care provided to HIV/AIDS patients in Zimbabwe 2) Contribute to the elaboration of technical guidelines that will support the roll out of health care initiatives country wide 3) Support mentorship activities that increase the quality of care provided at site level.
Our activities will be supporting the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and Plan through contributions in the development and update of guidelines and training materials for the provision of care to HIV infected adults and children at national level.
The implementation of our program will be done through consultancy visits to Zimbabwe where field visits to different provinces and districts in the country may be part of the gathering of the required information. Materials are developed together with in-country experts and target different health care cadres involved in the provision of health services.
I-TECH's main contribution to health systems strengthening is done through the support to in-country experts in the development of national guidelines and training materials for in-service training of health care workers with the final objective of improving the quality of care provided to HIV/AIDS patients in Zimbabwe.
The main Cross-cutting program involved is Human Resources for Health as the guidelines and materials produced will be used in the in-service training of health care workers. A Key PEPFAR issue addressed by our program is TB as guidelines and materials produced would include issues of clinical management of TB as the main Opportunistic infection among HIV patients.
Our cost-efficiency strategy is based on the use of existing resources (local or international) for the revision or production of new materials adapted to the country context.
In FY10 we plan to support the revision of the existing opportunistic infections (OI) and ART training materials developed in 2004 which need to be updated based on the review that the national OI/ART guidelines are currently undergoing. Additionally we would be responding to requests from incountry technical teams for external support in mentorship initiatives, training of trainers and other technical related activities.
In FY10 we plan to support the elaboration/revision of pediatric guidelines and/or training materials for management of HIV/AIDS and/or other opportunistic infections based on updated guidelines produced internationally or in-country to respond to the new challenges and evidence based recommendations in the management of pediatric patients. Additionally we would be responding to requests from incountry technical teams for external support in mentorship initiatives, training of trainers and other technical related activities.
