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 2012 2013 2014 2015
The goal of the cooperative agreement with the Lab Coalition is to improve and strengthen host government's laboratory capacity. Lab Coalition is a consortium of four U.S. organizations offering specialized services in laboratory management and performance.
PEPFAR CAR will work with MoH to increase their capacity on laboratory issues related to HIV/AIDS and related co-infection. This award will focus on activities described in the Laboratory Infrastructure technical area narrative. Multiple laboratory issues will be addressed, including varying means of HIV testing and confirmation, alternative means of transport of blood for testing (dried blood spot), testing for co-infections, and CD4 and viral load testing. Multiple venues for testing, ranging from clinics to prison services, will be supported. Lab Coalition will work with Ministries of Health of all five countries, and will work with different vertical structures of MoH. All these efforts will result in broad capacity building.
As part of capacity building, Lab Coalition will work on an organizational level with MoH to create laboratory strategic plans, helping to build a network of quality-assured laboratories that provide timely and accurate test results in each of the Central Asian countries. In all work, PEPFAR CAR will work with all donors and partners, including GFATM and World Bank, to coordinate all laboratories and to ensure donor funds are being leveraged. This will result in cost-efficiency, as will appropriate use of tests of good accuracy.
PEPFAR CAR will work closely with MoH to update the Quality Management System (QMS) for laboratory infrastructure.
PEPFAR CAR will work with Lab Coalition on one cross-cutting issue, which is described below.
HRH:
In Central Asia, there is no institution that is responsible for providing training, either in-service or pre-service, to laboratory practitioners. To improve quality of laboratory services in the near-future, PEPFAR CAR will work with MoH to provide in-service training where needed, and assist in developing pre-service training for laboratory workers.
