The Lagos State Government, through the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA), has unveiled its 2025–2027 Strategic Plan on HIV, renewing its commitment to a coordinated and sustainable response aimed at accelerating progress towards the State’s HIV targets by 2027.
The Chief Executive Officer of LSACA, Dr. Folakemi Animashaun, made the commitment during the dissemination of the Lagos State Strategic Plan on HIV 2025–2027 held at BWC Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Animashaun called for stronger collaboration among stakeholders, strategic resource mobilisation and evidence-based implementation to ensure that the State’s HIV response delivers measurable results and reaches more people who need prevention, testing, treatment and care services.
She said the Strategic Plan provides a common framework for aligning HIV programmes, resources and partnerships around agreed targets across Lagos State.
According to her, Lagos has recorded significant progress in its HIV response through the expansion of prevention programmes, HIV testing, treatment services and community-based interventions.
However, she noted that important gaps remain, particularly in reaching underserved populations, strengthening HIV prevention and testing, ensuring timely linkage to treatment, improving retention in care and achieving viral suppression.
Animashaun explained that although the Strategic Plan covers the 2025–2027 period, implementation is already well underway across the State.
She described the dissemination of the plan as an opportunity for stakeholders to assess progress, identify implementation gaps, strengthen coordination and focus collective efforts on achieving outstanding targets before the end of the plan period.
The LSACA chief urged stakeholders to use the engagement to develop a shared understanding of the State’s current HIV response and identify areas where available resources could deliver greater impact.
She reaffirmed LSACA’s commitment to providing the coordination needed to strengthen stakeholder alignment, support resource mobilisation, monitor implementation and promote evidence-based decision-making in the State’s HIV response.
Animashaun also acknowledged the strategic leadership of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), while commending ministries, departments and agencies, development and implementing partners, civil society organisations, networks, communities, healthcare workers and other stakeholders for their contributions to the HIV response in Lagos State.
She stressed that the successful implementation of the 2025–2027 Strategic Plan would depend on sustained collaboration, effective coordination, adequate resource mobilisation and a shared commitment to improving HIV prevention, treatment and care outcomes across the State.
As Lagos works towards its 2027 HIV targets, the plan is expected to provide a clearer framework for directing resources, strengthening interventions and closing persistent gaps in the State’s HIV response.
