“I would love if there was a young woman to encourage us, to ease our anxiety which we would have if we were alone”: Adapting the mothers2mothers mentor mother model for adolescent mothers living with HIV in Malawi
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Date
2019
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Public Library of Science
Abstract
Pregnant and post-partum adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living with HIV in
sub-Saharan Africa experience inferior outcomes along the prevention of mother-to-child
transmission of HIV (PMTCT) cascade compared to their adult counterparts. Yet, despite
this inequality in outcomes, scarce data from the region describe AGYW perspectives to
inform adolescent-sensitive PMTCT programming. In this paper, we report findings from formative implementation research examining barriers to, and facilitators of, PMTCT care for
HIV-infected AGYW in Malawi, and explore strategies for adapting the mothers2mothers
(m2m) Mentor Mother Model to better meet AGYW service delivery-related needs and
preferences.
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Young woman, Adolescent mothers, HIV, Malawi, Pregnancy
Citation
Carbone et al. (2019). “I would love if there was a young woman to encourage us, to ease our anxiety which we would have if we were alone”: Adapting the mothers2mothers mentor mother model for adolescent mothers living with HIV in Malawi. PLoS ONE, 14(6), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217693