Resource Alignment for HIV is a joint collaboration between the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (the Global Fund), and the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The collaboration provides routine granular data to enable a better and more complete understanding of HIV investments across funders, improves transparency, accountability, and efficiency of resource allocation, and ensures strategic alignment for maximizing the value of all available resources for sustainability of the HIV/AIDS response.

The data use cases for the resource alignment data are wide-ranging in nature. The data can be used in resource tracking efforts, including providing inputs to country reporting to the Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) system, National AIDS Spending Assessments (NASA), and National Health Accounts (NHA). The data can also be used when undertaking routine planning processes, such as the PEPFAR Country Operational Planning (COP) process, the Global Fund grantmaking processes, and annual government planning and budgeting processes. The data will provide harmonized data to use when performing resource optimization exercises, including longer-term national strategic planning by countries, projecting potential efficiencies, and informing sustainability planning including for HIV. The ability to also display the data using Global Fund and UNAIDS typologies and nomenclatures means that the data can be used to monitor Global Fund grants as well as to generate UNAIDS reports such as the executive summaries for HIV sustainability planning.