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Lina Sara Mathew Alonga Sara Mathew
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Safety Profiling of Traditional Antimalaria Plant, Aristolochia bracteolata Lam. Commonly used among Communities of Jubek State, South Sudan
REFNo: HS851ES

i. To document the preparation methods, uses and effects of A. bracteolata antimalarial plant among the communities in Jubek State,
ii. To identify and quantify the levels of aristolochic acid in A. bracteolata and in preparation as used by the communities in South Sudan,
iii. To determine the general toxicity and nephrotoxicity of A. bracteolata community preparation using Laboratory animal models

South Sudan 2020-11-26 2023-11-26 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
owino ambrose
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“Exploration of mathematics teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge for teaching subtraction strategy: A case study in Kwania District, Uganda”
REFNo: SS554ES

The purpose of this study is to explore mathematics teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge for teaching subtraction strategies.
Uganda 2020-11-26 2023-11-26 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Richard Mugambe Kibirango
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The impact of an mhealth and environmental cues intervention on hand hygiene practice among healthcare workers in the greater Kampala metropolitan area. A cluster randomised trial.
REFNo: HS882ES

1. To explore the opportunities for enhancing healthcare workers’ hand hygiene practices in HCFs in the GKMA.
2. To explore the barriers for enhancing healthcare workers’ hand hygiene practices in HCFs in the GKMA.
3. To compare the impact of mobile phone WASH text messages with that of environmental cues on hand hygiene practice among health workers in HCFs in the GKMA.

Uganda 2020-11-26 2023-11-26 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Emma Ariyo S
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Examination of Sociocultural Boundaries and Gender construction in Women’s Rugby in Uganda
REFNo: SS579ES

1. Contributing to the body of literature on women rugby players’ use of sport to navigate socio-cultural structures in society.

2. Providing an in-depth understanding of how female participation in sport impacts multiple identities [relations] and relationships [social positioning] in reference to young women and their families and communities.

3. Inform educators, activists, policy makers and sport administrators’ decisions about developing sport opportunities for women in Uganda.
Uganda 2020-11-26 2023-11-26 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Edith Akankwasa
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Implementing a child disability prevention, detection and rehabilitation project in central Uganda: Learning and experiences from the field
REFNo: HS896ES

i. To establish if amongst the intervention districts, those districts that show stronger implementation of birth defect and child disability prevention, child disability detection, management and rehabilitation interventions as envisaged perform better on key birth defect detection and child disability rehabilitation indicators compared to those intervention districts with “a lower level of implementation” (i.e., evidence of “dose-response”).
ii. To determine if, after three years, districts in project overall intervention area will show more improvement in coverage from baseline on key birth defect and child disability prevention, disability detection, management and rehabilitation indicators compared with those districts in the comparison area.
iii. To appraise the processes used in enhancing the delivery of the birth defect and child disability prevention, detection and rehabilitation services where they are being implemented.
iv. To explain in detail how and why the strategies employed led to the observed coverage in access to and utilization of the CDR project services in the implementation districts.
v. To characterize the stakeholders for birth defect and child disability prevention, detection and rehabilitation services.
vi. To document the barriers and facilitators used in the implementation of the CDR project along with how the barriers can be addressed

Uganda 2020-11-26 2023-11-26 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
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