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Richard Munana
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Chronic Kidney Disease among Patients with Diabetes and Hypertension in Nakaseke District Rural Uganda: Assessing Patient Characteristics and the Diagnostic Performance of Saliva Urea Nitrogen Strips in Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis When Combined with a Chronic Kidney Disease Case Finding Questionnaire and Machine Learning.
REFNo: HS1387ES

1) To determine the diagnostic performance of Saliva Urea Nitrogen (SUN) strips when combined with a chronic kidney disease case-finding questionnaires and machine learning in the diagnosis of chronic kidney diseases among patients with diabetes and or hypertension in Nakaseke district, rural Uganda. 2)To establish a Chronic Kidney Disease patients’ cohort based in the Rural Uganda Non-Communicable Disease (RUNCD) Cohort in Nakaseke, Uganda.
Uganda 2021-07-15 2024-07-15 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Betty OKOT
ID: UNCST-2021-R013938
Echoes of Antiquity in Acholiland: The Return to Te-Kwaro (Tradition) after the Civil War in Northern Uganda: RefNo:GUREC-2021-57
REFNo: SS833ES

ii. Highlight how memories, practices and unwritten laws reinforce land rights through links and attachment to the past actively conveyed in return migrations; ,3.Examine the roles and disputed effectiveness of traditional chiefs as latter-day custodians of traditional laws in modern times.,1. Recapture and retell the past through specific stories of return to abandoned homesteads ,
Uganda 2021-07-15 2024-07-15 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Charles Kiyaga
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Establishing universal screening and early interventions for SCD within the selected clinical networks for prevention of early mortality in Uganda.
REFNo: HS1362ES

Primary Objectives

a)To pilot newborn screening for SCD within the clinical networks of Jinja and Lira regional referral hospital in Uganda.

b)To register patient data and medical history of babies diagnosed with SCD within the first three months of life in a shared database.

c)To initiate antibacterial and antimalarial prophylaxis among the identified SCD infants within the first three months of life.

d)To ensure that the identified SCD infants are each immunized against pneumococcus and Haemophilus influenzae type b.

e)To monitor each patient at required intervals (every three months until age two years; every four to six months from age three to five years) and update patient record in registry after each visit.

f)To estimate the incidence of SCD among infants and children identified in Jinja and Lira regional referral hospitals and identify the specific hemoglobin genotypes.

Secondary Objectives

a)To measure the 5-year survival rate of children enrolled in the newborn screening cohorts.

b)To assess the costs of newborn screening and early interventions for each site or network

Uganda 2021-07-14 2024-07-14 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Susan Babirye
ID: UNCST-2021-R013201
Using realist evaluation principles to explore existing local innovations for improving timely attendance of first antenatal care among slum dwellers of Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: SS869ES

1) To identify the existing local innovations for increasing timely attendance of first antenatal care visit and their perceived success.
2) To describe the theories of change for the innovations perceived to be successful at increasing timely attendance of first antenatal care visit.
3) To explore the underlying mechanisms (generalizable contextual factors) that favored success of innovations perceived to be successful at increasing timely attendance of first antenatal care visit among slum dwellers.

Uganda 2021-07-14 2024-07-14 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Naome Wandera Namakula
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Assessing the effectiveness of a course for men on Women’s Land Rights Social Norms in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda- Endline Assessment in Uganda
REFNo: SS889ES

To document the current status of knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, intentions and perceptions of peer norms related to women’s land and property rights among men that participated in the SYFF course in Kenya and Uganda. The changes at end-line, if any, in knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, intentions and perceptions of peer norms related to women’s land and property rights among participants in the SYFF course in each country will be compared to baseline status.
Uganda 2021-07-14 2024-07-14 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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