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Kim van Dijk
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Jackfruit sharing between wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) living in a human-dominated landscape in Bulindi, Uganda.
REFNo: NS114ES

To determine how chimpanzees share jackfruit (e.g. patterns of active versus passive sharing, begging, harassment, and theft).
To determine which factors influence jackfruit sharing (e.g. female sexual swelling, harassment, social bonding, kin relations).
To map where chimpanzees forage for jackfruits.
To determine to what extent jackfruit sharing is similar to meat sharing in other chimpanzee populations.

 Netherlands 2020-02-11 2023-02-11 Natural Sciences Degree Award
Joseph Baluku B
ID: UNCST-2019-R000612
 Treatment Outcomes of Difficult-to-Treat Drug resistant TB Patients: A retrospective evaluation of cases reviewed by the national TB consilium in Uganda
REFNo: HS452ES

Primary Objective 1: To determine the treatment outcomes of difficult-to-treat DR-TB patients reviewed by the DR-TB consilium in Uganda

Primary Objective 2: To compare the treatment outcomes of difficult-to-treat DR-TB patients reviewed by the DR-TB consilium in Uganda with those that have not been reviewed by the DR-TB consilium in Uganda

Secondary Objective: To establish predictors of treatment outcomes of difficult-to-treat DR-TB patients reviewed by the DR-TB consolium in Uganda

 Uganda 2020-02-07 2023-02-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Judith Mutyabule NA
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Exploring the influence of organisational culture: nurses' perspective on clinical leadership in a public hospital in Uganda
REFNo: HS480ES

To describe staff nurse clinical leadership
To explore the organisational culture influence on the structural environment of the staff nurses
To explain the barriers and facilitators of staff nurse clinical leadership
 Uganda 2020-02-07 2023-02-07 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Samson Okello
ID: UNCST-2019-R001580
 Cardiovascular risk factor profiles and outcomes in rural Uganda: The Bugoye Hypertension Improvement Project (B-HIP)
REFNo: HS487ES

1. To assess the baseline (at time of enrollment to BHIP) prevalence of various cardiovascular risk factors (obesity, dyslipidemia, and diabetes mellitus) in adults visiting the Bugoye Hypertension Improvement Project.
2. To determine incidence of sustained blood pressure control among persons with hypertension enrolled in BHIP.
3. To assess the costs of hypertension care in a Level III healthcare center in rural Uganda.
 Uganda 2020-02-07 2023-02-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Paul  Kutyabami
ID: UNCST-2020-R015029
 Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: The emerging pollutant for surface water and food stuffs grown in Kampala City, Uganda
REFNo: HS530ES

General Objective
To assess existence of the PiE phenomenon, explore factors that may be contributing to it and propose short term and long term mechanisms to mitigate it in the KCCA

Specific Aims
•To establish magnitude of PiE in the KCCA
•To establish the factors that may be contributing to the PiE in KCCA

 Uganda 2020-02-07 2023-02-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
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