Health systems responsiveness towards the Mentor Mother Program for preventing mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV in military hospitals

AIM: This study explored health systems responsiveness towards the Mentor Mother Program for PMTCT in the Nigeria Department of Defence hospitals. Factors affecting quality service were also highlighted, which gave helpful insights into the strategies employed by stakeholders to ensure that health systems responsiveness was propagated responsibly. DESIGN: An exploratory qualitative interview study. METHODS: Six semistructured interviews were conducted with six key informants (three doctors and three nurses) and one focus group session with six Mentor Mothers. Open coding of data was done to formulate themes and subthemes. Thematic analysis was adopted for analysis. RESULTS: Four themes emerged—Service Quality, Basic Amenities, Patient‐oriented Strategies and Factors affecting service Quality. These showcased the nonmedical components of health systems responsiveness and accentuated how well they were utilized to achieve health systems responsiveness.