4M Mentor Mothers Network CIC
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Mission Statement
At 4M, we are working to shift the narrative. Instead of a top-down, bio-medical focus on ‘elimination of Mother to Child Transmission’ (eMTCT), we work to ‘ensure our Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (eSRHR) throughout our lives’. We are an entirely peer-run organisation of women living with HIV. Led by Black women from migrant and refugee backgrounds, our approach seeks to ensure that our voices and priorities are heard in all discussions about issues affecting women living with HIV pre, during and beyond the pregnancy journey. In all our work, 4M considers the different needs and priorities of women living with HIV in all our diversity. All women living with HIV are welcomed, and all experiences are respected. Our approach is person-centred, holistic and collaborative, addressing the intersectional issues affecting our lives as women living with HIV. Our work is led by, shaped by, and includes women living with HIV around the UK and internationally. 4MNet: ensuring our sexual and reproductive rights during pregnancy and beyond, for life.
About This Cause
4M stands for "My Health, My Child, My Choice, My Life." We are an innovative peer-led Mentor Mothers network, training women living with HIV across the UK and internationally as Mentor Mothers to provide our peers with psycho-social support in their pregnancy journey and beyond. Led by black African migrant women, we establish safe community spaces and grassroots ownership to address specific challenges/anxieties experienced by women living with HIV navigating the perinatal journey. 4M Net is centred on the principles of the 2017 WHO Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) of Women living with HIV. These principles are rights-based, gender equitable and women-centred. We use a holistic and trauma-informed approach to address intersectionalities women face. 4M Net’s work contributes to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals and supports the Respectful Maternity Care Charter. As a result of our work, Mentor Mother peer support is now promoted as good practice in the British HIV Association National Pregnancy Guidelines. We started in 2016 as a Salamander Trust programme and since 2019 we have developed into an independent incorporated Community Interest Company (CIC) - 4M Mentor Mothers Network CIC (4M Net). Please help us continue to grow and flourish!