Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS in Botswana

Through PEPFAR, Botswana received more than $24.3 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2004, more than $51.8 million in FY 2005, more than $54.9 million in FY 2006, $76.2 million in FY 2007, and nearly $93.2 million in FY 2008 to support comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care programs. PEPFAR plans to provide nearly $93.9 million in FY 2009.¹

Progress achieved in Botswana through direct PEPFAR support during FY 2009:^{2, 3}

• 237,500 individuals reached with community outreach HIV/AIDS prevention activities that promote abstinence and/or being faithful
• 52,200 individuals reached with community outreach HIV/AIDS prevention activities that promote correct and consistent use of condoms and related interventions
• 17,367,000 USG condoms shipped from calendar year 2004 through 2009
• Support for antiretroviral treatment, care and support (including TB/HIV), orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), services for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT), and HIV counseling and testing is provided to national programs rather than through direct site-specific support. For an explanation of PEPFAR's transition to reporting only direct program results, please see www.pepfar.gov/2009results/.

¹ FY 2009 funding level is planned and is subject to change. Of the total planned funding for FY 2009, $1.76 million is Partnership Framework funding that will be made available to Botswana in full after their Partnership Framework documents are completed and signed.

² PEPFAR defines direct support as data that captures the number of individuals receiving prevention, care, and treatment services through service delivery sites or providers directly supported by U.S. Government (USG) interventions or activities at the point of service delivery. An intervention or activity is considered to be direct support if it can be associated with counts of uniquely identified individuals receiving prevention, care, or treatment services at a unique program or service delivery point benefiting from the intervention or activity. The indicators in effect in FY 2009, as well as the Next Generation Indicators currently in force for PEPFAR's second phase, may be found at www.pepfar.gov/guidance/.

³ "0" is reported for countries that reported indirect results only. Indirect program results are available at http://www.pepfar.gov/press/sixth_annual_report/137145.htm.

⁴ Botswana treatment results are attributed to the National HIV Program. Beginning in FY 2005, USG direct contributions in Botswana are embedded in the indirect numbers, following a consensus reached between the USG and the Government of Botswana to report single indirect figures for each relevant indicator.