Nanlesta Pilgrim

Biographic Data

ID5992143
NAMENanlesta Pilgrim
GIVEN NAMESNanlesta
FAMILY NAMEPilgrim
SIGNATUREPILGRIM N
AFFILIATIONSPopulation Council
ORCID0000-0002-2097-7877
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Implementation Journey with CAB LA for PrEP Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Men

    Open AccessNanlesta Pilgrim, Hadrian Holder et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2026

    Men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender men (TGM) account for an estimated 67% and Trial registry ClinicalTrials.gov number: NCT05374525 (May 2022).

  • Social support and very young adolescent girl’s knowledge on sexual relationships

    Open AccessWanangwa Chimwaza Manda, Mphatso Kamndaya et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Early sexual relationships are associated with an increased risk of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDs, teenage pregnancies, and unsafe abortions among other negative health outcomes. Understanding sexual relationships among very young adolescents (VYAs) is important to equip them to protect themselves from negative sexual health (SH) outcomes. DREAMS ( D etermined, R esilient, E mpowered, A IDS-free, M entored, and S afe)…

  • Policymakers’ and healthcare providers’ perspectives on the introduction of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis for key populations in Ghana

    Open AccessHenry Nagai, Edward Adiibokah et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Policymakers and providers recognize the value of PrEP in cubing new HIV infections but have concerns about disinhibition, non-adherence, and cost. Therefore, the Ghana health service should roll-out a range of strategies to address their concerns including: sensitization with providers to mitigate underlying stigma towards KPs, particularly MSM, integration of PrEP into existing services, and innovative strategies to improve continued use of PrE…

  • Hearing From Men Living With HIV

    Open AccessJohn Mark Wiginton, S Mathur et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Engaging men in HIV services remains a challenge across sub-Saharan Africa. There is a critical need to better understand facilitators of men's successful engagement with HIV services and assess if there are similarities across contexts. We conducted in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with 92 men living with HIV (MLHIV) across Malawi, Uganda, South Africa, and Eswatini, most of whom had been diagnosed with HIV within the last 5 years…

  • Girl-only clubs’ influence on SRH knowledge, HIV risk reduction, and negative SRH outcomes among very young adolescent girls in rural Malawi

    Open AccessWanangwa Chimwaza Manda, Nanlesta Pilgrim et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Girls-only HIV and SRH programs coupled with economic empowerment for their families can be effective in keeping VYA girls in school and improving SRH knowledge and health seeking behavior

  • Quality of care and HIV service utilization among key populations in Zambia

    Nanlesta Pilgrim, Maurice Musheke et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2019

    HIV epidemic control requires improving access and uptake of HIV services by key populations (KPs). In Zambia, the behaviors of female sex workers (FSWs), men who have sex with men (MSM), and people of who use drugs (PWUD) are criminalized, and little information exists about their HIV/STI service use. Using a quality of care (QOC) framework, we compared barriers to and opportunities for HIV/STI service access and uptake among the three KPs. We c…

  • Pregnancy Experiences of Female Sex Workers in Adama City, Ethiopia

    Open AccessEileen A Yam, Aklilu Kidanu et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2017Cited by: 2References: 19

    Research and programs for female sex workers (FSWs) tend to focus exclusively on HIV prevention, with little attention paid to how pregnancy affects their lives. We examine the circumstances surrounding pregnancy and childbirth among women selling sex in Ethiopia. In Adama City, researchers asked 30 FSWs aged 18 and older who had ever been pregnant to participate in in‐depth interviews. The women reported on pregnancies experienced both before an…

  • Family structure effects on early sexual debut among adolescent girls in Rakai, Uganda

    Nanlesta Pilgrim, Saifuddin Ahmed et al.ARTICLEVulnerable Children and Youth…2013Cited by: 3References: 5

    This study assessed the association between household family structure and early sexual debut among adolescent girls, ages 15-19, in rural Rakai District, Uganda. Early sexual debut is associated with detrimental physical, emotional and social outcomes, including increased risk of HIV. However, research on the family's role on adolescents' sexual risk behaviors in sub-Sahara Africa has been minimal and rarely takes into account the varying family…

  • Adolescent mental and physical health in the English-speaking Caribbean

    Open AccessNanlesta Pilgrim, Nanlesta A Pilgrim et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2012

    OBJECTIVE: Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, a multisystem framework, was used to identify risk and protective factors associated with adolescent mental and physical health (AMPH) in the English-speaking Caribbean. METHODS: A structured literature review, using the online databases of Medline, PsychInfo, and Scopus, was conducted to identify peer-reviewed studies published between January 1998 and July 2011 focused on adolescents ages 1…