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Strategic information is a cornerstone of the scientific basis of The Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (The Emergency Plan). With aggressive five-year goals of treating more than 2 million HIV-infected persons with effective combination antiretroviral therapy, preventing 7 million new HIV infections, and caring for 10 million HIV-infected persons and those orphaned by HIV/AIDS, it is imperative that the priority countries have well-developed and timely data from surveillance and program monitoring, each supported by appropriate health management information systems (HMIS) and other information technology.

Strategic information serves multiple purposes: to assist countries in planning and monitoring services, and to provide information to the United States Government (USG) for The Emergency Plan reporting and for the international donor community. The two broad types of information required to monitor performance of The Emergency Plan implementation in host countries include:

1. A limited set of program monitoring indicators to track key USG-supported activities
2. National outcome and impact indicators that measure joint progress with other international donors through a variety of methods

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance regarding data collection and reporting for The Emergency Plan program monitoring and evaluation, including outputs, outcomes and impacts. There are three sections:

1. Table 1, which shows the required program-level data reporting elements
2. The program-level monitoring matrices, which further describe and define the program-level data in Table 1
3. The outcome and impact level indicators with their data collection methods and international standard sources, separated into core and recommended indicators