The Mother Mentor program aims to strengthen HIV health literacy of pregnant women and mothers, strengthen their linkages to health services, and create peer support systems by empowering women living with HIV to become ‘Mentor Mother’ peer leaders.
Under the program, Mentor Mothers co-designed a Mentor Mother Toolkit with ASHM and the Burnet Institute, alongside program partners the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health and Igat Hope.
Each kit contains resources to support Mentor Mothers to feel confident having conversations with women living with HIV about important measures to prevent transmission to their infants— such as adhering to ART treatment throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding and encouraging supervised birth at a medical facility.
