"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

• Main Authors: Nadia A. Sam-Agudu (Author), Angela Odiachi (Author), Miriam J. Bathnna (Author), Chinazom N. Ekwueme (Author), Gift Nwanne (Author), Emilia N. Iwu (Author), Llewellyn J. Cornelius (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...