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By Kareem Islamiyat
In Nigeria’s ongoing effort to strengthen HIV surveillance and improve health equity across underserved communities, public-health epidemiologist Lateefat Abiodun Mosaku is emerging as one of the leading voices modernizing community-level HIV monitoring and prevention systems.
In her role as Assistant Director of Public Health Initiatives at CHES Empowerment Foundation (CHESFOUND), Mosaku plays a pivotal part in strengthening the organisation’s HIV response architecture across multiple regions.
At CHESFOUND, Mosaku provides the technical backbone that ensures HIV-surveillance data is accurate, timely, and actionable for both programme implementers and nationwide decision-makers. Her leadership has significantly enhanced the Foundation’s Save A Life Outreach (SALO) programme, an initiative responsible for delivering mobile HIV screening, community sensitization, and prevention services across rural and high-burden communities throughout Nigeria.
Through her advanced expertise in digital HIV surveillance systems, data modernization, and real-time epidemiological monitoring, Mosaku has helped transform the way CHESFOUND collects, validates, and uses HIV data. Her work has improved community testing workflows, strengthened linkage-to-care mechanisms, and enhanced the design of public-health education materials used to reduce HIV stigma and promote viral-suppression awareness.
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Her contributions ensure that HIV surveillance does not remain fragmented or incomplete but is instead coordinated through standardized digital tools that support early detection, improved monitoring, and evidence-driven intervention design. By supervising the integration of data-quality assurance procedures and digital case-reporting systems, Mosaku has helped field teams capture more accurate and reliable data, supporting decisions on where testing units should operate and which communities require targeted intervention.
CHESFOUND credits her geospatial mapping strategies for improving outreach success in several communities where HIV screening yields have increased following data-guided deployment of mobile testing teams. Her work also strengthened the accuracy of facility-level registers across various Local Government Areas, correcting long-standing inconsistencies between HIV-testing logs, ART enrollment records, and monthly surveillance summaries.
The improvements she introduced have elevated the efficiency and reliability of CHESFOUND’s HIV interventions, with several internal monitoring reports now describing these enhanced surveillance models—built under her guidance—as prototypes for replication across other regions in Nigeria.
An executive at CHESFOUND official noted that Mosaku’s work “positioned CHES as one of the most data-responsive community health organisations in the country, ensuring that no community is left behind due to poor information or delayed reporting.”
Beyond operational improvements, Mosaku’s leadership in training community health workers and data stewards on digital reporting tools and WHO-aligned documentation practices has strengthened nationwide capacity to track new cases, monitor ART continuity, and identify viral-suppression gaps—critical components of epidemic-control strategy.
Her work directly advances CHESFOUND’s mission of strengthening public-health equity across rural and underserved communities. By modernizing HIV surveillance, improving digital literacy among frontline workers, and designing community-centered monitoring systems, Mosaku ensures that data is not merely collected but transformed into meaningful public-health action.
The surveillance improvements she drove now inform CHESFOUND’s wider organisational strategy, influencing resource allocation, mobile-unit deployment, and the design of prevention campaigns across multiple states.
For many public-health experts, her efforts demonstrate how Nigeria’s HIV response can be transformed through digital innovation, community-driven monitoring, and strong technical leadership.
Mosaku’s contributions place her among the next generation of Nigerian public-health leaders ensuring that HIV surveillance systems are not only modernized, but equitable, accessible, and centred on the communities most affected by the epidemic.
