President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief’s (PEPFAR) Use of Geospatial Data - presented at the UN World Data Forum 2017

1. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief’s
(PEPFAR) Use of Geospatial Data
Dr. Paul S. Zeitz
U.N. World Data Forum
January 16, 2017

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U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
• In 2003, President George W. Bush
launched U.S. President’s Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief and launched the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, &
Malaria.
• PEPFAR is the largest commitment by
any nation to combat a single disease.
• Reauthorized for 5 years by President
Bush in 2008
• Reauthorized for 5 years by President
Obama in 2014

3. PEPFAR has transformed
the way it is doing
business by using open
data at the center of
decision-making, we are
working with our
partners to unleash
innovation, improve
efficiency and
effectiveness to achieve
the greatest impact for
its investment.

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PEPFAR Targets
At UNGA 2015, President Obama set ambitious targets for PEPFAR. By the end
of 2017, PEPFAR aims to:
• Support 12.9 million people on life-
saving ART
• Provide 13 million male circumcisions
• Reduce HIV incidence by 40 percent
among adolescent girls and young
women within 10 African countries:
Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania,
Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

5. PEPFAR has a direct impact on SDGs:
health, education, gender equality, reducing inequalities,
promoting peaceful and inclusive societies, and
partnerships

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A data revolution is underway at the U.S. President’s Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). We’re using data in transformational
ways to prevent more HIV infections and save more lives, ensuring our
investments have the greatest impact by targeting lifesaving
interventions to the populations and places with the highest HIV/AIDS
burden. By collecting local-level granular data, more frequently, and
analyzing it through innovative approaches, we’re accelerating progress
toward reaching the bold HIV prevention and treatment targets set by
President Obama last September and, ultimately, achieving our globally
agreed goal: end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
- Ambassador Deborah L. Birx
April 2016

7. Harnessing the Data Revolution for the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Two Major Tracks
– MONITORING: Supporting and
complementing efforts already
underway by governments to
generate data for statistics for the
formal SDG monitoring framework
– ACTION: Unleashing innovation on
the use of real-time, dynamic,
disaggregated data from multiple
sources

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PEPFAR Data Sources
• POART: Program Oversight and
Accountability Response Team
• MER: Monitoring, Evaluation and
Reporting
• SIMS: Site Improvement Through
Monitoring System
• Expenditure Analysis
• SID: Sustainability Index Dashboard
• Surveys
• New Sources: Citizen Feedback and
Mapping
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9. PEPFAR’s Mapathon Use Case
Better maps will
improve:
• our understanding of
program coverage
• the optimization of
supply-chain logistics
• the analysis of clinical
site-level data
• Other?
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10. PEPFAR’s Mapathons: First Look
• November – December 2016
• First Ever Country-hosted World
AIDS Day Mapathon
• Mapathons held in Tanzania,
Kenya, Uganda and the United
States
• Collaborations with
YouthMappers, HOT and the
Tanzania Data Lab (dLab)
• Mapping of PEPFAR Priority
Districts in Tanzania, Kenya and
Uganda
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11. Siaya county, Kenya (October 2016)

12. Siaya county, Kenya with Detail (January 2017)
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13. Rakai, Uganda (October 2016)

14. Rakai, Uganda with Detail (January 2017)
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15. PEPFAR Priority District Mapping
By the Numbers
• Under the #PEPFAR tag on OpenStreetMap, volunteer
mappers have, to date:
–Made 56,667 total edits
–Added 46,463 buildings
–Added 7,455 km of roads
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16. What’s Happening Now?
 MAPPING: Ongoing mapping underway through HOT Taskers; New
tasks will be added as current tasks are completed
 VALIDATION: GIS specialists, Implementing partners and
YouthMappers are validating key features using spatial data from
site visits
 LOCAL ENGAGEMENT: Local engagement and ownership of the
map = key objective
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17. Use of Mapping Data
 Upgraded maps in core system Geographic context for facility-level
indicator data
 Underserved population, network and catchment area analysis
underway
 Supply chain & site visit optimization
 Input to Oxford model on HIV prevalence, PLHIV, and incidence; helps
allocate population estimates
 Improve coordination with other health interventions
 Your ideas are welcome!
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18. Data Revolution for an AIDS Free-Generation
For more
information,
please email
ZeitzPS@state.gov