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 2018 2019
In collaboration with CDC Atlanta and its other partners, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) continues to provide strategic information (SI) and technical assistance (TA) to CDC-GAP, PEPFAR II, the Global Health Initiative and multiple countries. These efforts include HIV/AIDS monitoring and evaluation (M and E), and epidemiologic surveillance training, and other relevant SI and TA. This has strengthened country health systems, increasing their capacity to generate and synthesize evidence-based strategic information, and, importantly, putting it to use.
Countries can then lead their own efforts to build capacity in M and E, surveillance, training and other means for taking control of the epidemic. Through partnerships with Ministries of Health and universities, and in close collaboration with host country organizations working in SI, UCSF supports prevention, care and treatment services, strengthening health systems in all activities through training, mentoring, tool development, and the ongoing review and dissemination of evidence.
UCSFs overall strategic principles include the following: Building host-country public health capacity; Supporting the efforts of US Government (USG), country health ministries and Multi-lateral technical working groups (TWGs); Avoiding duplication; Ensuring synergies with USAID and other USG partners; and Leveraging headquarters funding to maximize other investments. Program monitoring and evaluation plans to determine progress towards program objectives will be developed and supported based upon defined and approved inputs, outputs, and outcomes.
I-TECH and UCSF will continue the implementation of capacity-building activities at the Hanoi School of Public Health and additional institutions throughout Vietnam. The overarching goal is to improve the quality of epidemiological research and surveillance in Vietnam and to increase the number of epidemiological research studies conducted by or in close partnership with Vietnamese nationals in Vietnam. While the quality of epidemiology training at the schools of public health and medicine in Vietnam is good, there are gaps in the curriculum and areas that need further development. At the same time, the demand for epidemiologists and public health workers with a basic knowledge of epidemiology is increasing due to the influx of funding to combat HIV/AIDS and other health conditions. Following the successful implementation of short courses in epidemiological surveillance and biostatistics in COP 10 and 11, UCSF will continue to offer a series of short courses at selected medical universities, schools of public health and other institutions in areas where the institutions needs to develop its curriculum. The audience will consist of faculty and students and current public health professionals, with a goal of "training-the-trainer" so that Vietnamese faculty/research staff can adopt the materials to create new courses at their institutions. Course offerings will be based on the continuing needs assessments and curriculum desk reviews and may include biostatistics, designing epidemiologic research, and scientific writing. In summer 2011, six visiting scientists from Vietnamese institutions participated in an intensive course at UCSF on research methods and responsible conduct of research as part of the NIH-supported Fogarty Exchange program. Over the coming fiscal year, the trainees will implement their research projects with continued support from their UCSF faculty mentors. Support will entail trainees and their UCSF mentors applying to appropriate institutional review boards for approval (UCSF, CDC & local IRB), fine-tuning protocols, implementing the protocols and collecting data. Technical support will also be given in support of preparing presentations for local, national or international conferences.
