The Chief Kayode Adesina Onimole Foundation (KAO Foundation) is making significant progress in modernizing HIV surveillance, digital health reporting, and community-based healthcare delivery in Lagos State, with public-health specialist Lateefat Abiodun Mosaku, MPH, Director of Public Health at KAO Foundation, playing an important role in the technological and operational improvements supporting the organization’s HIV interventions.

As Director of Public Health, Mosaku is responsible for strengthening the Foundation’s HIV prevention, community-based screening, digital HIV surveillance, health information systems, linkage-to-care, telehealth, mobile clinic, and treatment-support programs. Her work combines epidemiological analysis with technology-enabled healthcare delivery to identify underserved populations, monitor HIV-related health indicators, and develop evidence-informed interventions across Lagos State.

A major example of her contributions is the ongoing Integrated HIV Surveillance Modernization Initiative (IHSMI), being implemented by KAO Foundation in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Health. Launched in January 2019, the initiative is designed to modernize HIV surveillance by replacing fragmented, paper-based reporting processes with integrated digital systems that improve case detection, electronic reporting, and epidemiological monitoring.

As Chief Technical Architect and Program Director of IHSMI, Mosaku is contributing to the development and implementation of the initiative’s digital surveillance infrastructure, including electronic case-reporting systems, data-validation procedures, and technology-supported monitoring processes. These responsibilities complement her broader work as Director of Public Health, where she helps connect epidemiological information with the Foundation’s healthcare programs and operational decisions.

Among the initiative’s major achievements to date is the introduction of digital surveillance technologies designed to improve the accuracy, accessibility, and timeliness of HIV-related information. These improvements are helping participating healthcare facilities identify inconsistencies in surveillance records, strengthen case monitoring, and generate more reliable information for public-health interventions.

The initiative is also expanding digital surveillance infrastructure across public and private healthcare facilities while strengthening the technical capacity of healthcare workers in digital epidemiology, electronic case management, electronic reporting, and data-quality assurance.

Mosaku oversees the collection, validation, analysis, and reporting of HIV program data, helping ensure that information generated through community screening, healthcare facilities, and mobile outreach activities can be used to identify high-risk populations, monitor disease trends, and address gaps in healthcare delivery.

These developments are strengthening KAO Foundation’s ability to make informed decisions about HIV screening priorities, community outreach, mobile clinic deployment, treatment referrals, and healthcare resource allocation.

Beyond technological improvements, Mosaku’s work is contributing to the expansion of HIV prevention and treatment-support services in underserved Lagos communities through mobile healthcare outreach, telehealth-enabled services, community-based testing, and digital patient monitoring.

Her responsibilities include guiding community-based HIV screening and targeted case-finding programs designed to reach individuals who may have difficulty accessing conventional healthcare facilities. Through mobile clinics and differentiated HIV-testing strategies, the Foundation is working to extend screening and prevention services to populations facing geographical, economic, and social barriers to healthcare.

Community volunteers and healthcare workers are also participating in household-level data validation, HIV-prevention education, and outreach activities intended to improve surveillance completeness and encourage participation in HIV-testing services.

An important aspect of Mosaku’s work is ensuring that HIV interventions do not end with screening and diagnosis. She supports the systems used to connect individuals who test positive with Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), treatment referrals, continued patient monitoring, and follow-up services.

Through electronic patient tracking, telehealth-supported follow-up, and coordination with healthcare facilities, her work is helping strengthen the continuity of HIV care, particularly for patients who experience transportation difficulties, geographical isolation, or other barriers to regular facility visits.

She also monitors key program indicators, including HIV-testing coverage, positivity yield, linkage-to-care, treatment retention, and viral-suppression outcomes. These indicators help KAO Foundation assess whether its interventions are reaching intended populations and identify areas requiring additional attention.

Mosaku’s contributions are particularly relevant to underserved communities in Lagos State, where population density, geographical accessibility, and uneven healthcare infrastructure can complicate HIV testing, treatment referral, and continuity of care.

Through geospatial analysis, electronic reporting, and community-based surveillance, the ongoing initiative is developing a framework for identifying populations requiring additional healthcare attention and supporting more targeted deployment of screening and outreach services.

The modernization effort is initially focused on Lagos Island, with opportunities being explored for broader application across other Local Government Areas, including Surulere, Ikorodu, and Badagry. These expansion possibilities reflect the Foundation’s interest in extending technology-supported HIV surveillance and healthcare delivery beyond its initial implementation locations.

Another important aspect of Mosaku’s responsibilities involves strengthening the reporting and sharing of validated HIV surveillance and program data with the Lagos State Ministry of Health. This work is intended to support more consistent public-health monitoring, identify gaps in HIV-service coverage, and improve the availability of community-level epidemiological information for state-level planning.

The initiative is also working toward closer integration with the Lagos State Health Information System, with the objective of connecting community-generated HIV surveillance information to broader public-health reporting and monitoring processes.

For KAO Foundation, these developments represent important progress in strengthening the systems used to monitor HIV interventions, coordinate participating healthcare facilities, and evaluate program performance.

As Director of Public Health, Mosaku also works with multidisciplinary healthcare teams, government agencies, participating health facilities, and community partners to support the delivery of HIV prevention, surveillance, and treatment-related services.

Her responsibilities include providing technical oversight for donor-supported public-health programs, strengthening data-quality assurance, improving health information management, and supporting coordination between facility-based healthcare services and community outreach activities.

These functions are important to the Foundation’s operations because effective HIV interventions depend on reliable surveillance information, coordinated healthcare delivery, timely treatment referrals, consistent patient follow-up, and accurate monitoring of program outcomes.

Mosaku’s contributions are particularly significant because her work connects several essential public-health functions: digital surveillance infrastructure, epidemiological analysis, healthcare-worker training, community-level data collection, telehealth, mobile clinic services, treatment monitoring, and organizational program evaluation.

Rather than focusing exclusively on HIV testing or routine reporting, her responsibilities support the development of an integrated public-health system through which surveillance information can guide healthcare interventions and improve the Foundation’s response to identified community needs.

Her broader professional experience also includes work in infectious-disease surveillance and integrated healthcare systems, particularly in strengthening screening processes, epidemiological data quality, and treatment-monitoring approaches.

At KAO Foundation, Mosaku continues to contribute to HIV surveillance modernization, mobile clinic operations, telehealth-supported patient care, epidemiological data quality, treatment linkage, and continuity of care, with particular attention to populations experiencing barriers to healthcare access.

The ongoing IHSMI initiative is already demonstrating the practical importance of integrating digital surveillance technologies with community-based HIV prevention and treatment-support activities.

Through improvements in electronic reporting, data validation, healthcare-worker capacity, community engagement, and patient monitoring, Mosaku’s contributions are strengthening the technological and operational systems supporting KAO Foundation’s HIV interventions in Lagos State.

Her work also supports the Foundation’s broader objective of translating epidemiological information into practical public-health action, ensuring that surveillance findings can inform decisions about where healthcare services are needed, which populations require additional support, and how HIV-prevention and treatment programs can become more responsive.

As implementation continues, KAO Foundation is working to expand the reach and effectiveness of its HIV surveillance systems, mobile healthcare services, and telehealth-supported programs, with the objective of ensuring that rural, underserved, and high-burden communities are better represented in HIV monitoring, prevention, and treatment-support activities across Lagos State.

Mosaku’s contributions demonstrate how specialized expertise in digital health, epidemiological surveillance, and technology-enabled healthcare delivery can strengthen organizational effectiveness while supporting more equitable access to HIV services.

Her ongoing work at KAO Foundation reflects the importance of connecting reliable public-health data, modern healthcare technologies, community participation, and evidence-based intervention planning in addressing HIV-related healthcare disparities in Lagos State, Nigeria.