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 […]
MMs Konzo Ngoma, Longret Kwardem, Memory Sachikonye, Rebecca Mbewe and Angelina attended the conference. Memory, Rebecca and Angelina presented on their book Our Stories Told by Us, and Longret and Konzo womaned our colourful 4M stand, which had lots of our hand-sewn U=U t-shirts. Read more about the CHIVA conference.
MMs LeaSuwanna and Angelina attended the BASHH (British HIV Sexual Health) Masterclass in Sheffield. Both were members of a panel on Breastfeeding and HIV, alongside 4M Steering Group member Dr Shema Tariq and Chair of BHIVA, Dr Yvonne Gilleece. Angelina was also a panel member on a discussion about HIV and Stigma. To view the […]
Angelina was part of the Organising Committee of/and attended the conference together with 4MNet East Africa members Michelle and Mary. Together with Bakita Kasadha, they facilitated a Skills-Building workshop on Engaging women living with HIV in research. She shares key take-aways from the conference. Presentations from the conference are available on the Academic Medical Education’s […]
On the 6th of February 2024, team 4M – Longret, Konzo, Estelle and Angelina, spent an incredibly inspiring day with Natwest volunteers (https://www.natwest.com/). Faye and Haley have been and continue to work with team 4M to give us skills and tools to enable us to prioritise our work for better outcomes in the work that […]
MM Susan Cole represented 4M at the Fast Track Cities Conference, facilitating the discussion on HIV & Migration.
In the picture with Millie, she tells us. “I love volunteering at Parkrun, which is free diverse and encourages walkers as well as runners, people trying to get fitter, or even volunteers who’d like to marshal. It’s not a race, as there is a volunteer Tail Walker who comes in last especially! We all get […]
Huge thank you to ViiVHC For funding Part 2 of our: Women! Our relationship with treatment and well-being: Knowledge Is Power Webinar series. More information on topics & guest speakers please see here. Huge thank you too to GoodThingsFdn for gifts of data and devices, to support digital and data access for women we support. Your donation has made a […]
Congratulations to Mentor Mother Lucy, based in Kenya, who recently released her new book, Hope Made a Way. “As many as the stars above are as many people who are just where you are, going through what you are going through and wanting the answers that you want. This is why I wrote Hope Made […]
Congratulations to MM Mercy who has completed her year 2 community placement as part of her (BSc) Adult Nursing studies.
Congratulations to Mentor Mother LeaSuwanna Griffith on her excellent panel input into the Gilead symposium – Who’s role is it anyway: the annual health reivew – at the national National HIV Nurses Association Conference #NHIVNA2023. The session focussed on encouraging nurses that the annual review is a perfect time to get the most out of their patients, with meaningful […]
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