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David Wells Arthur
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How the relatedness information encoded in scent changes with age in wild banded mongooses
REFNo: NS69ES

Determine how relatedness information is communicated and understand why synchronised births are sufficient to prevent infanticide. Determine if juveniles encode the same relatedness information in scent that adults do.
UK 2018-12-20 2021-12-20 Natural Sciences Degree Award
Joseph  Akuze
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An Algorithm to Predict Newborn Complications in the First 28 days of Life at Iganga General and Jinja Regional Referral Hospital (N-COP Study)
REFNo: HS256ES

General Objective The purpose of this study is to develop – an algorithm to predict newborn complications in order to improve management and care among newborns. Specific Objectives 1.To develop an algorithm to predict newborn complications in the first 28 days of life stratified by gestation age at birth. 2.To determine the incidence of newborn complications within the first 28 days of life: -stratified by gestational age at birth. 3.To establish the time to newborn complications within the first 28 days stratified by gestational age at birth. 4.To estimate time to newborn complications and mortality within the first 28 days of life.
Uganda 2018-12-20 2021-12-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Julia Downing
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Impact of the Ugandan Palliative Care Nurse Leadership Project
REFNo: HS274ES

The study is aimed at assessing the impact of the original Ugandan Palliative Care Nurse Leadership Programme
 UK 2018-12-20 2021-12-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Jane Francis Namukasa Wanyama
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Antiretroviral therapy outcomes, barriers and facilitators of linkage into care and adherence among individuals initiating treatment under “Test and Start” guidelines in urban HIV clinics in Uganda
REFNo: HS281ES

General Objective: To establish treatment outcomes, barriers and facilitators of adherence and linkage to care among individuals initiating ART under “Test and Start” guidelines in six urban HIV clinics in Uganda. Specific objectives: The study has three specific objectives: Specific objective 1: To describe treatment outcomes among HIV positive individuals initiated on ART under “Test and Start” guidelines over a 2-year period. This will be a retrospective evaluation of prospectively collected data of all HIV positive individuals who were initiated on ART under “Test and Start” guidelines at Kisenyi, Kisugu, Kawaala, Komamboga and Kiswa HC III. Our extracted dataset will include all eligible ART patients who started ART between January 2017 and January 2018. Follow up period for each participant will be two years until January 2020. We shall describe the proportion of participants achieving virological suppression, incidence of OIs, retention rates, mortality rates and adherence patterns for patients retained on ART at 6,12 and 24months. Specific Objective 2: To explore barriers and facilitators for linkage into care following HIV diagnosis under “Test and Start” guidelines. This will be a qualitative study in which a purposively selected sample of individuals who tested HIV positive but were not linked into care or those who were linked into care but declined to initiate ART will participate in In-depth interviews (IDIs). We shall also conduct IDIs to explore facilitators and barriers for linkage into care among those who were linked into care at any of the five Health Center(HC) IIIs following HIV diagnosis. Specific Objective 3: To explore barriers and facilitators for adherence to ART among individuals initiated on ART under the “Test and Start” guidelines. This will be a qualitative study in which a purposively selected sample of individuals initiated on ART under “Test and Start” guidelines will participate in IDIs. Adherence scores will be extracted from the ART clinic databases as assessed by the health care providers. We shall explore facilitators for ART adherence among adherers (reporting adherence ≥95%) with corresponding viral suppression as a proxy marker for adherence. To explore barriers for adherence, participants with poor adherence will be categorized as irregular (inconsistent) and lost to follow up (LTFU). Both adherers and non-adherers will be stratified by gender, marital status, employment status and age. Additionally, Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) will be conducted with healthcare providers to assess their experiences regarding barriers and facilitators for ART adherence among patients initiated on ART under “Test and Start” guidelines.
Uganda 2018-12-20 2021-12-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Anthony  Fuller
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A Community-Based Cross-sectional Study of Epilepsy Prevalence and Barriers to Epilepsy Treatment in Uganda
REFNo: HS291ES

Main objective: The first objective of this study is to estimate the countrywide prevalence of epilepsy in Uganda. The second objective is to characterize the community-held beliefs and barriers affecting epilepsy treatment in Uganda. Specific Objectives: AIM 1: To estimate the countrywide prevalence of epilepsy in Uganda 1A- To describe geographic variation, if any, of epilepsy prevalence AIM 2: To characterize the community-held beliefs about epilepsy in Uganda. 2A- To assess knowledge, attitudes, and other factors associated with epilepsy treatment barriers in Uganda.
 USA 2018-12-20 2021-12-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
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