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Table 1 Comparisons between facility-based and community-based mentor mothers

From: Acceptability of community-based mentor mothers to support HIV-positive pregnant women on antiretroviral treatment in western Kenya: a qualitative study

 

Facility based MM

Community MM

Remuneration and workload

 Receive stipend

✓

✓

 Receive other benefits e.g. health insurance

✓

✓

 Conduct support groups at the facility

✓

 

 Facility-based client interactions

✓

✓

 Community-based client interactions

 

✓

 Involved in facility register documentation

✓

 

 Keeps record/logbook of peer support activities

✓

✓

Core adherence and retention activities

 Phone call/SMS

✓

✓

 Adherence/retention counseling

✓

✓

 Regular home/non-facility visits during pregnancy and postpartum

 

✓

 Liaise with or alert health care workers for tracking clients

✓

✓

 Support to male partners

 

✓

 Support to children/family

 

✓