Gavin Ackers Johnson
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Assessing the Resistance Patterns of Bacteria Isolated from Cases of Maternal Sepsis at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda; and Further Investigating the Potential Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance in the Staphylococcus aureus isolates obtai
REFNo: HS249ES
1. To determine the most common bacterial species that are associated with maternal sepsis at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital and their resistance profiles.
2. To use molecular typing to assess Staphylococcus aureus isolates and determine whether patients are being infected by the same strains, which may provide clues as to sources of infection
3. To identify the mechanisms of any antibiotic resistance observed.
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UK |
2019-02-26 |
2022-02-26 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Agnes Kiragga
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A Pilot Test of a Technology-delivered HIV Self-Testing Intervention in Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: HS307ES
1) An established 24-hour call-in center staffed by medical providers who will deliver accurate HIV/STI information, perform pre- and post-test counselling, assist with conducting HIVST and interpreting the HIVST results, and referral and linkage to appropriate post-test prevention and treatment care; and
2) The use of SMS and social media streams – specifically private Facebook and Twitter messages - to “push†theoretically-grounded messages that promote HIVST and provide additional private communication routes between participants and medical provider research staff. The study aims are:
Aim 1: Develop HIVST messages and finalize study procedures and materials with input from a Community Advisory Board (CAB), and beta test the intervention with 6 sexually active Ugandan adults (18-49 years old; 50% female).
Aim 2: Using a pre-post design, assess the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary impact of the HIVST intervention developed in Aim 1 for Ugandan adults (n=100; 70% 18-24 years old, 30% 25-49 years old; 50% female). Feasibility will be assessed by whether enrollment targets are reached and the proportion of completed 1- and 3-month follow-ups calls. Acceptability items will be gathered at 1- and 3-month assessments. Preliminary impact will be determined by the percentage of participants who perform HIVST in the 3 months after enrollment.
Aim 3: Analyze process indicators of the overall use of the HIVST intervention, including the number of HIVST kits requested, the volume of callers requesting HIVST during the study period, the number of persons calling for assistance with self-testing procedures, the number of post-test counseling calls received, and the number of persons linked to follow-up prevention and care services.
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Uganda |
2019-02-26 |
2022-02-26 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Julie Hennegan Maree
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Assessing girls’ menstrual practices and experience: development of a menstrual practices questionnaire and the menstrual perceptions scale.
REFNo: SS279ES
Background
After a history of neglect and taboo, the role of the menstruation in women and girls’ dignity, health, education, employment, and wellbeing has begun to receive attention. Stakeholders from governments to local charities have started to recognize the barriers that poor menstrual management and menstrual stigma present to gender equality. This has resulted in a rapid increase in the dissemination of interventions; from small-scale sanitary pad or puberty education provision to national policies such as large-scale sanitary pad distribution for schoolgirls in Ghana and Kenya. Despite this increased action, there is limited research available to inform intervention development or evaluation.
There is a lack of comprehensive, validated survey tools with which to measure women and girls’ menstrual practices and experiences. This limits the quality of cross-sectional and intervention research as well as monitoring and evaluation by NGOs and governments.
General Objective
This project aims to improve the measurement of menstrual practices and experiences in low resource settings through field testing and assessment of the psychometric properties of new measures of practices and perceptions.
Specific Objectives
1. To field-test acceptability and responses to a newly developed Menstrual Practices Questionnaire (MPQ), and Menstrual Perceptions Scale (MPS).
2. To assess the test-retest reliability of the MPQ and MPS.
3. To assess the factor structure of the MPS through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.
4. To assess convergent and divergent validity of the MPS, that is, association of the scale scores with hypothesized correlates.
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Australia |
2019-02-26 |
2022-02-26 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Eve Smeltzer Ann
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Conflict and Consensus: The Impacts of Socio-Ecological Contexts on Vervet Collaborative Movements
REFNo: NS83ES
This research will examine how vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) use social strategies and democratic processes to mitigate conflicts of interests during collaborative movements and how their decisions are impacted by varying social and ecological contexts.
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USA |
2019-02-19 |
2022-02-19 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Denis Muhangi
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ROLE OF ASFV LATENTLY INFECTED PIGS AND SOFT TICKS IN AFRICAN SWINE FEVER EPIDEMIOLOGY IN ACHOLI SUB REGION, NORTHERN UGANDA
REFNo: A40ES
(i) Establish the prevalence of ASFV latently infected pigs in a post-outbreak situation.
(ii) Investigate the existence of the soft tick O. moubata and their ASFV status.
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Uganda |
2019-02-19 |
2022-02-19 |
Agricultural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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