SALAUDEEN WALIYAT OPEYEMI

Directed comprehensive monitoring and evaluation activities for the CDC/SPEED Project, ensuring data integrity, program adherence, and positive public health outcomes in HIV/AIDS, TB, PMTCT, and HTS initiatives across multiple Local Government Areas.

• Coordinated weekly, monthly, and quarterly data reporting and Data Quality Assessment/Assurance processes, ensuring timely collection, documentation, and reporting of all surveillance data from the site.
• Established and coordinated robust monitoring systems, encompassing data collection, analysis, and review, and ensured 100% completeness of HIV/AIDS service delivery tools across all service delivery points.
• Improved the ART cascade and achieved a 95% viral suppression rate at State Specialist Hospital Asubiaro (SSHA) through diligent patient tracking and follow-up for viral load tests.
• Utilized routine data to track performance and provided actionable, data-related feedback to team members, assessing existing data sources to identify and address documentation, reporting, and analysis gaps.
• Led community awareness campaigns on HIV/AIDS and other epidemics, and scaled up partner elicitation and community index case testing, coordinating ART initiation efforts.
• Ensured accurate and complete entries into the DHIS for HTS, ART, PMTCT, and TB records, maintaining proper documentation of source documents, registers, and EMRs.

Contributed to the CDC-1753 HIV/AIDS project by tracking key indicators, providing technical assistance for M&E systems, and ensuring data quality to inform project management decisions.

• Tracked key performance indicators and contributed to facility Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives, ensuring timely data reporting, routine Data Quality Assurance, and robust documentation storage.
• Provided technical assistance to supervised sites in setting up and maintaining standard M&E systems, ensuring proper completion of client intake forms, registers, and tools.
• Facilitated rapid dissemination of monitoring insights to senior managers and utilized the Collaborative, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) approach to inform project management decisions.
• Significantly reduced the Viral Load gap and minimized patient loss to follow-up within the program, improving treatment adherence and outcomes.

Managed critical patient data for the CDC-1753 HIV/AIDS project, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timely reporting across multiple health information systems.

• Ensured meticulous documentation of patient data across physical folders, Anti-Retroviral (ART) registers, and Electronic Medical Records (EMR).
• Tracked patient records and compiled weekly data reports from all testing points, ensuring timely information flow for program monitoring.
• Performed regular data backups to ensure preservation and integrity of critical patient information, enhancing data security and accessibility.

Coordinated case management and adherence support for HIV/AIDS patients, optimizing program implementation, patient retention, and viral load suppression rates.

• Coordinated and oversaw daily operations of the case management team, providing technical support to ensure effective program implementation.
• Identified operational gaps, recommended solutions, and provided targeted training, serving as a key liaison between team members and implementing partners.
• Monitored Case Management Team (CMT) Key Performance Indicator (KPI) progress and developed strategies to meet and exceed program targets.
• Oversaw facility ART adherence and Viral Load suppression rate review meetings, ensuring comprehensive documentation and follow-up, including supervision of VL sample collection and EMR updates.

Conducted essential laboratory procedures, including sample collection and analysis, to support accurate patient diagnosis and ensure efficient laboratory operations.

• Collected and analyzed patient blood and body fluid samples, ensuring accurate diagnostic testing for various medical conditions.
• Assisted medical laboratory scientists in performing differential cell counts to identify abnormal cells, directly aiding in the diagnosis of conditions like anemia.
• Managed laboratory inventory, ensuring adequate stocking, proper resourcing, and precise labeling of all materials to maintain operational efficiency.
• Accurately recorded and interpreted laboratory results, effectively communicating findings to patients and contributing to informed medical decisions.

Supported advanced genetic research projects focused on plant and animal gene characterization and tissue culturing at a national biotechnology center.

• Assisted researchers in the tissue culturing of plant and animal genes, contributing to critical genetic research projects.
• Prepared various media solutions for laboratory experiments, ensuring sterile and precise conditions for research integrity.
• Supported scientists in the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification of plant and animal genes, crucial for genetic analysis.
• Assisted researchers in the molecular characterization of plant and animal genes, enhancing understanding of genetic structures.

Research on the inhibitory effects of Bryophyllum pinnatum on angiotensin converting enzyme and arginase activities in sodium fluoride-induced hypertensive rats.