“They do not see us as one of them”: a qualitative exploration of mentor mothers’ working relationships with healthcare workers in rural North-Central Nigeria

“They do not see us as one of them”: a qualitative exploration of mentor mothers’ working relationships with healthcare workers in rural North-Central Nigeria

Abstract Background In HIV programs, mentor mothers (MMs) are women living with HIV who provide peer support for other women to navigate HIV care, especially in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT). Nigeria has significant PMTCT program gaps, and in this resource-constrained...

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Main Authors: Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, Angela Odiachi, Miriam J. Bathnna, Chinazom N. Ekwueme, Gift Nwanne, Emilia N. Iwu, Llewellyn J. Cornelius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-09-01
Series:Human Resources for Health
Subjects:
Mentor mother
Expert mother
Peer support
PMTCT
HIV
Task shifting
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12960-018-0313-9

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