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Edward  Bitarakwate
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Evaluation of Patient and Program Outcomes Achieved through EGPAF-supported Integrated HIV and TB Prevention, Care, and Treatment Programs in Uganda
REFNo: HS930ES

Primary Objectives:
1.To determine patient and program outcomes for children, adolescents and adults receiving HIV and TB services in EGPAF supported facilities and through EGPAF supported programs.

Secondary Objectives:
1. To determine outcomes of HIV testing strategies targeted at identifying HIV positive children, adolescents, and adults in facilities and the community including the number and proportion identified as HIV-positive, linked to HIV services, and initiated on ART in EGPAF supported facilities and through EGPAF supported programs.
a. To determine individual, population, and program characteristics/factors associated with each outcome along the testing to treatment cascade.

2. To determine clinical and laboratory outcomes among HIV-positive children, adolescents and adults enrolled in HIV services such as morbidity (including coinfections), mortality, ART regimen, ART adherence, retention in care, viral suppression, and disease progression in EGPAF supported facilities and through EGPAF supported programs.
a. To determine individual, population, and program characteristics/factors associated with each outcome, including baseline clinical characteristics before initiating ART.

3. To determine the outcomes of HIV prevention activities (including PMTCT) among pregnant women, discordant couples, adolescents and other key and priority populations in facilities and the community including the number accessing prevention services by risk category, retention in services, and seroconversion rates.
a. To determine individual, population, and program characteristics/factors associated with the HIV prevention outcomes.

4. To determine clinical and laboratory outcomes among children, adolescents and adults accessing TB screening/diagnosis, prevention, and treatment services such as HIV/TB coinfection rates, initiation and adherence to IPT, initiation and adherence to TB treatment, retention in care, treatment outcomes for drug resistant TB, mortality.
a. To determine individual, population, and program characteristics/factors associated with each outcome.

Uganda 2020-11-10 2023-11-10 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Harriet Mayanja-Kizza
ID: UNCST-2021-R013074
“Assessment of circulating proteins in Ugandan tuberculosis household contacts for latent TB infection biomarker development: Version 1.0 dated 14 Sept 2020”
REFNo: HS958ES

Refine our protein signature to function in HIV-positive persons, incorporating cytokine and chemokine markers as needed.
2. Refine our protein signature to identify Mtb infection that has developed within a 6-month timeframe.

Uganda 2020-11-10 2023-11-10 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Esther Nanfuka Kalule
ID:
Livelihood Resilience During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Practices of Informal Sector Populations in the Urban and Peri-urban Settings of Kampala and Wakiso Districts
REFNo: SS619ES

The study will specifically:
• Examine the current livelihood practices and resources among urban informal sector workers in the context of restricted mobility and social distancing
• Examine the opportunities and challenges for vulnerable urban informal sector workers to negotiate and reconfigure livelihood sources including social networks and social capital for support in a lockdown situation
• Assess the most valued livelihood sources (assets, capabilities, activities) under the lockdown and preferred areas of allocating available resources among different categories of the informal urban population
• Examine the potential and perceived risks (including public health) of the livelihood activities undertaken during the COVID-19 lockdown

Uganda 2020-11-10 2023-11-10 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
ARTHUR  SEKIZIYIVU BRIAN
ID:
END-LINE EVALUATION OF AN HIV PREVENTION PROJECT IMPLEMENTED BY UGANDA PEOPLE’S DEFENSE FORCES AND PACE
REFNo: HS989ES

I. Measure changes in the knowledge, attitudes and practices among the military and AGYW to adopt and sustain positive behavior change.
II. Identify challenges, innovations, lessons, and success stories across the interventions
III. Identify the opportunities to integrate prevention interventions within (into) an HIV care program

Uganda 2020-11-10 2023-11-10 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Hannington Odongo Jawoko
ID: UNCST-2024-R002457
The Relationship between Social Governance and Smallholder Farmer Socio-Economic Resilience: Moderating Effects of Pluralistic Agriculture Extension Service Provision in Northern Uganda
REFNo: A78ES

To investigate the moderating effects of perceptions of the quality of pluralistic agricultural extension services provision on social governance exhibited in participatory local government planning and budgeting process.

To examine the influence of social governance exhibited in participatory local government planning and budgeting process on the values and needs of smallholder farmers in northern Uganda.

To assess the impacts of perceptions of the quality of pluralistic agricultural extension services provision on socio-economic resilience of smallholder farmers in northern Uganda.

To examine the impacts of social governance exhibited in participatory local government planning and budgeting process on smallholder farmer’s socio-economic resilience in northern Uganda.

Uganda 2020-11-09 2023-11-09 Agricultural Sciences Degree Award
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