HIV: Fed Govt, Lagos To Survey Over 11,000 Residents

Lagos State government, successful concern with the Federal Ministry of Health and the National AIDS and STIs Control Programme (NASCP), has concluded plans to behaviour a broad HIV interaction survey targeting astir 11,397 residents crossed the state’s 20 section authorities areas (LGAs).

The initiative, known arsenic the Nigeria State-Level Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Impact Survey (AIS), volition beryllium carried retired betwixt October and December 2025.

The survey volition measure HIV prevalence, attraction coverage, and viral load suppression among adults aged 15–64, with information collected from 6,150 households crossed 205 enumeration areas.
During a property briefing successful Ikeja connected Wednesday, the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Ministry of Health, Dr Olusegun Ogboye, described the workout arsenic captious to strengthening evidence-based readying and interventions for HIV effect successful Lagos.

“This interaction survey volition measure HIV prevalence, attraction coverage, and viral load suppression among adults successful Lagos. We number connected the practice of communities, information agencies, and tract workers to marque it successful,” Dr Ogboye said.

He urged tract workers to attack their duties with diligence, emphasising the nationalist value of the information they volition collect.

“Even though you are 1 idiosyncratic successful 1 community, the results you make volition signifier nationalist wellness planning,” helium added.

Also speaking astatine the event, Dr Ibrahim Dalhatu, Deputy Director of Epidemiology and Strategic Information astatine the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), underscored the initiative’s human-centred nature.

“This is yet astir people, the aforesaid radical who volition beryllium engaged and who volition payment from the exercise. The outcomes volition usher important wellness decisions connected HIV and different diseases for Lagos and Nigeria,” Dalhatu said.

Dalhatu reaffirmed the U.S. CDC’s committedness to method enactment and called connected each stakeholders to guarantee that tract teams are granted assemblage entree and acceptance to alteration credible results.

Representing the National Coordinator of NASCP, Dr Chioma Ukanwa, Deputy Director for Prevention, described the ART Impact Survey arsenic a globally recognised instrumentality for tracking advancement successful epidemic control.

“The survey volition scope homes, communities and section governments, providing a existent representation of the HIV situation. We request reliable information to marque informed decisions and amended healthcare outcomes,” Ukanwa said.

Director of Research, Monitoring and Evaluation astatine the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Mr Francis Agbo, said the survey marks a important milestone successful monitoring HIV power efforts successful Lagos.