LIGHT FAQs
What is LIGHT?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Leading Insights in Global HIV & TB (LIGHT) is an interactive dashboard that uses monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (MER) data and Expenditure Reporting from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to demonstrate PEPFAR and CDC’s impact in the global HIV and tuberculosis (TB) response.
LIGHT uses information from PEPFAR data systems to provide a visual analysis of the progress made toward ending the HIV epidemic in countries supported by PEPFAR. The dashboard highlights the impact of HIV and TB programs over time and compares progress across countries.
In addition to CDC, other U.S. Government agencies have also contributed to PEPFAR’s impact.
The purpose of the LIGHT is to demonstrate how well PEPFAR’s global HIV and TB programs are working using reliable data from countries supported by PEPFAR.
HIV Indicators Included in the Dashboard
LIGHT uses monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (MER) data as well as Expenditure Reporting data pulled from PEPFAR’s Panorama platform.
The dashboard provides data on PEPFAR’s impact and CDC’s contributions in PEPFAR-supported countries. These data include country-level and annual trend data for five key PEPFAR outcomes – those indicators known to have the greatest impact on new annual HIV infections and deaths. These include:
- Antiretroviral treatment for men, women, and children
- People who received a positive HIV test result
- Voluntary medical male circumcisions
- HIV positive persons screened in care for TB
- Antiretroviral treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission
The dashboard also includes data on the amount spent each fiscal year to achieve impact in PEPFAR-supported countries, including the amount spent per person – a good metric for understanding the efficiency of PEPFAR program implementation. To ensure accuracy, this information is only available for those indicators whose data align across PEPFAR monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (MER) and Expenditure Reporting platforms.
The expenditure data or amount spent each fiscal year excludes any spending on pharmaceutical products.
Dashboard Data and Data Sources
LIGHT uses information from PEPFAR data systems which include data from all countries CDC and PEPFAR support, worldwide.
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Colombia
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Jamaica
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Vietnam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
– Antiretroviral Treatment for Men, Women, and Children:
- Data is not reported for the following countries and years
- 2015 – Ukraine, West Africa Region, Western Hemisphere Region, Angola, Asia Region, Dominican Republic
- 2016 & 2017 – West Africa Region, Ukraine
- CDC does not report results for this intervention for the West Africa Region
– Antiretroviral Treatment to Prevent Mother-to-child Transmission:
- Data is not reported for the following countries and years:
- Angola: 2016 – 2019
- West Africa Region: 2015 – 2019
- Western Hemisphere Region: 2015 – 2020
- Vietnam does not report antiretroviral treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission as of 2019
- Asia Region does not report antiretroviral treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission as of 2018
– HIV-Positive Persons Screened in Care for Tuberculosis:
- Data on screening of ART patients for TB was collected starting in 2017. Data on this indicator is not available for 2015 or 2016.
- Data is not reported for the following countries and years:
- 2017 – Angola, South Africa, Ukraine, Dominican Republic
- 2019 – Asia Region, Western Hemisphere
- 2021 – Angola
- 2022 – Ukraine
- Data is not reported for the following countries and years:
- 2015 – West Africa Region, Western Hemisphere, Tanzania, Angola (no CDC data available), Asia Region (CDC data is not reported)
- CDC began reporting testing for Ukraine in 2017
- PEPFAR supports VMMC in the following countries: Botswana, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. VMMC data is not available for other countries.
- CDC currently reports VMMC data in all these countries except for Lesotho, Namibia (as of 2020), and South Sudan.
– People who Received a Positive HIV test:
– Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC):
Using the Dashboard
The dashboard can also be a powerful tool for HIV advocates, policymakers, and other partners to use in increasing awareness about the impact of U.S. Government’s efforts to end HIV globally, and the success of American investments in PEPFAR since 2003.
- Place cursor on the three dots above each table or chart
- Select “Export data”
- Select which data you want to export and a desired format
- Click “Export” to access the downloaded report