Annabelle Gourlay

Biographic Data

ID7774342
NAMEAnnabelle Gourlay
GIVEN NAMESAnnabelle
FAMILY NAMEGourlay
SIGNATUREGOURLAY A
AFFILIATIONSLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0003-4387-1925
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • What combination of interventions can optimise HIV prevention for adolescent girls and young women? Cohort analysis of DREAMS participation in urban and rural Kenya

    Open AccessFaith Magut, Sarah Mulwa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Comprehensive intervention packages are recommended to address multiple sources of HIV risk for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). DREAMS is a multi-component HIV prevention program designed to reduce HIV incidence among AGYW. We conducted a prospective cohort study among AGYW aged 13–22 years, randomly selected in rural Gem and urban Nairobi informal settlements followed from 2017/2018–2019. AGYW were classified into three groups: (1) invi…

  • Impact of a multilevel HIV prevention programme on adolescent girls and young women’s empowerment for risk reduction

    Open AccessElizabeth Kemigisha, Jane Osindo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Empowerment is key to person-centered HIV prevention. This study aims to evaluate the extent to which the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, Safe (DREAMS) Partnership promotes empowerment of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Kenya. We conducted a mixed-methods study to examine DREAMS influence on empowerment precursors (resources, agency, institutional structures) and outcomes, guided by Kabeer’s framework for women’s…

  • Gender-transformative HIV and SRHR programme approaches for adolescents and young people

    Open AccessAnnabelle Gourlay, Damilola Walker et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Introduction Gender inequalities continue to drive new HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) at rates too high to achieve global goals. In high HIV-burden jurisdictions, this is particularly true for adolescent girls and young women at disproportionate risk, while social and systemic barriers also impede the engagement of young men and gender minorities with health services. We sought evidence of approaches to promote sexual and reproduc…

  • Impact of DREAMS interventions on attitudes towards gender norms among adolescent girls and young women

    Open AccessKate Andrews Nelson, Faith Magut et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The DREAMS partnership aims to deliver a comprehensive package to reduce HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), including through shifting gender norms. We evaluate DREAMS’ effect on attitudes towards gender norms in two Kenyan settings. AGYW aged 15–22 in Nairobi (n = 852) and Gem (n = 761) were randomly selected for cohort enrolment in 2017–18 and followed-up to 2019. We described the proportion of AGYW and their male peer…

  • Impact of DREAMS interventions on experiences of violence among adolescent girls and young women

    Open AccessElvis Omondi Achach Wambiya, Annabelle Gourlay et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    DREAMS aims to reduce HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) by tackling drivers of HIV risk including gender-based violence. We evaluate the impact of DREAMS on recent experiences of violence perpetuated by men against AGYW. AGYW cohorts were randomly selected from demographic platforms in South Africa (rural KwaZulu-Natal) and Kenya (Nairobi informal settlements and rural Gem sub-county). AGYW aged 13–22 years were enrolled…

  • Impact of the DREAMS Partnership on social support and general self-efficacy among adolescent girls and young women

    Open AccessAnnabelle Gourlay, Sian Floyd et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) Partnership aimed to influence psychosocial processes that promote empowerment among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), and reduce HIV incidence. We estimated the impact of DREAMS on aspects of AGYW's collective and individual agency (specifically, social support and self-efficacy), in three settings where DREAMS was implemented from 2016 until at leas…

  • Reaching early adolescents with a complex intervention for HIV prevention

    Open AccessSarah Mulwa, Jane Osindo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Uptake of DREAMS interventions among a representative sample of EAG was high and quickly increased over the implementation period. The majority accessed multiple interventions, indicating that it is feasible to integrate and deliver a package of interventions to EAG in a challenging informal context

  • Awareness and uptake of layered HIV prevention programming for young women

    Open AccessAnnabelle Gourlay, Isolde Birdthistle et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    In representative population-based samples, awareness and uptake of DREAMS were high after 1 year of implementation. Evidence of 'layering' (receiving multiple interventions from the DREAMS core package), particularly among more socio-economically vulnerable AGYW, indicate that intervention packages can be implemented at scale, for intended recipients, in real-world contexts. Challenges remain for higher coverage and greater 'layering', including…

  • Non-disclosure of HIV testing history in population-based surveys

    Open AccessChristopher T Rentsch, Georges Reniers et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2018

    Background: HIV/AIDS programmes and organisations around the world use routinely updated estimates of the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets to track progress and prioritise further programme implementation. Any bias in these estimates has the potential to mislead organisations on where gaps exist in HIV testing and treatment programmes. Objective: To measure the extent of undisclosed HIV testing history and its impact on estimating the proportion of people…

  • Evaluating the impact of the DREAMS partnership to reduce HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women in four settings

    Open AccessIsolde Birdthistle, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    DREAMS is, to date, the most ambitious effort to scale-up combinations or 'packages' of multi-sectoral interventions for HIV prevention. Evidence of its effectiveness in reducing HIV incidence among AGYW, and demonstrating which aspects of the lives of AGYW were changed, will offer valuable lessons for replication

  • Challenges with routine data sources for PMTCT programme monitoring in East Africa

    Open AccessAnnabelle Gourlay, Alison Wringe et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    Routinely collected clinic data have the potential to provide much needed information on the uptake of services to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, and to measure HIV prevalence in pregnant women. This article describes the methodological challenges associated with using such data, based on the experiences of researchers and programme implementers in Tanzania and drawing from other examples from East Africa. PMTCT data are rou…

  • Barriers and facilitating factors to the uptake of antiretroviral drugs for prevention of mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV in sub‐Saharan Africa

    Open AccessAnnabelle Gourlay, Isolde Birdthistle et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International AIDS…2013