Some activities Mentor Mothers have been up to.
LeaSuwanna Griffith is a Black British Caribbean ambassador, activist, and advocate with almost 20 years’ experience in healthcare, peer support, and community engagement. She shares her lived experience as a woman living with HIV to challenge stigma and amplify the voices of women often left out of the conversation. LeaSuwanna works at St Bart’s Hospital […]
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 […]
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 […]
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