Some activities Mentor Mothers have been up to.
MMs Charity, Neo, Tresca & Angelina – are all members of the Joyful Noise Choir and performed at the RHS Chelsea Show on the 20th of May 2024 at the Terence Higgins Trust Bridge to 2030 garden. Quote from THT IG below. Members of Joyful Noise – a community choir for people living with HIV […]
Extra special thanks to the Senior Prefect Team at Camden School for Girls – 6th Form – for choosing 4M Network as their charity for this year. The team organised a football tournament, a Valentine’s Day Post Office delivering anonymous messages of positivity to staff and students, and a recycling clothes drive where students donated items […]
Huge thanks to our amazing SG member Susan Bewley who fundraised 349.34 via her doorstep Trash or Treasure event.
Our wonderful 4M SG Chair Rageshri Dhairyawan has written a book. Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing is a book about who gets listened to and who doesn’t in medicine and how this leads to a culture of silencing that exacerbates health inequities, unjust differences in health, on an individual and global scale. It’s also about […]
We’re extremely proud to announce that two of our Mentor Mothers – Rebecca Mbewe & Memory Sachikonye received an Unsung Heroes award at the British HIV Association (BHIVA) Spring conference 2024. The conference took place in Birmingham on 29.04 – 1.05. To find out more about the BHIVA conference, please click here.
Angelina attended and participated in the PENTA Child Health Research meeting on: research priorities in children born to parents living with HIV.
MM Samantha Dawson attended and was part of the SUBU (Student Union Bournemouth University) PRIDE event.
MM Fungai shares her reflection from the conference. This year’s hybrid edition was held on 12&13 April 2024 in Washington DC, attended by 348 delegates (172 in person & 176 virtually). 4M Network of mentor mothers had three members in attendance – Fungai and Angelina, members of the Organising Committee, and Estelle – 4M Lead […]
4M members Jacquelyne Alesi, Longret Kwardem, Rebecca Mbewe, Fungai Murau, Angelina Namiba, Lucy Wanjiku Njenga, Mel Rattue and Alice Welbourn are members of the POWER Group, which stands for Positive Women Engaged in Research. Together they are working to advance recognition of the critical importance of our meaningful involvement, as women living with HIV, in […]
4M members Jacquelyne Alesi, Ellen Kajura Bajenja, Lucy Wanjiku Njenga, and Alice Welbourn are part of the STREAM Network (led by Lucy). STREAM stands for Stepping Stones Trainers Engaged with Activist Movements. It was created to educe violence against women living with HIV and advance our SRHR, through taking gender-transformative social norms change programmes to […]
We set up 4MNet to meet our priority of providing ourselves and our peers with psycho-social, perinatal support, as an essential part of our sexual and reproductive health and rights. This translates into positive outcomes for our babies, extended family and communities.
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