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Jannie  Nielsen Oestergaard
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Assessment on Commercial Sexual Exploitation among female minors in high risk areas of Uganda
REFNo: SS216ES

General objective: To assess Commercial Sexual Exploitation among 12-17-year-old female minors in high-risk areas of Uganda. Specific objectives: 1. To determine the magnitude of Commercial Sexual Exploitation among female minors aged 12-17 years in selected high-risk areas of Uganda. 2. To identify factors, contextual processes and cultural and social norms associated with Commercial Sexual Exploitation among female emancipated minors aged 12-17 years in selected high-risk areas of Uganda. 3. To identify general characteristics of the perpetrators in commercial sexual exploitation from the perspective of the female emancipated minors in commercial sexual exploitation, and from relevant key informants. 4. To identify the needs and risk perceptions female emancipated minors have in relation to commercial sexual exploitation and understand how they cope and mitigate with them. 5. To describe the implications commercial sexual exploitation has on the life of the female emancipated minors, from their own perspective and from relevant key informants.
Denmark 2018-08-14 2021-08-14 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Megan Schmidt-Sane Mila
ID: UNCST-2019-R001043
A mixed-method study of health vulnerability and social resilience in Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: SS199ES

Aim 1: Quantify individual patterning of key factors such as alcohol use, gambling, knowledge, attitudes, and practices, perceptions of access to resources, job stability, frequency of arrest, bar group membership, economic dependence on FSW, and risky sexual behavior in men’s quotidian lives, through the use of survey methods and regression analysis. Aim 2: Identify pathways from men’s risk to resilience and/or vulnerability and examine community-level social organization through in-depth interviews and participant observation with men in sex work communities. Aim 3: Understand the social, political, economic, and legal structures that configure men’s sexual health risk, resilience, and vulnerability, through in-depth interviews and participant observation with men in sex work communities and community service providers.
USA 2018-08-14 2021-08-14 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Riley Ravary
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Governance in Transboundary Protected Areas: Analyzing Community Experiences at Mount Elgon National Park in Uganda
REFNo: SS148ES

The overall objective of this project is to understand the concept of protection by identifying who or what transboundary protected areas protect. (1) The first specific objective is to understand how governance of transboundary protected areas impacts local resources, residents, and resources users. (2) The second specific objective is to determine how protections are enacted in transboundary protected areas. (3) The third specific objective is to assess how persons who work, reside, and move through transboundary conservation areas balance the trade-off between protection and vulnerability.
USA 2018-08-07 2021-08-07 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Ronald Mayanja
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CERVICAL CANCER AND ITS PRECURSORS IN HIV INFECTED YOUNG (BELOW THIRTY YEARS OLD) WOMEN AT MBARARA REGIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL, UGANDA.
REFNo: HS178ES

General Study Objective The main objective of this study is to determine the prevalence and factors associated with cervical cancer and its precursors among HIV infected young (below thirty years old) women at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. Specific Objectives 1. To compare the prevalence, histological types, trends and factors associated with cervical cancer amongst HIV-positive and HIV-negative young (below thirty years old) women attending the colposcopy and cervical pathology clinic of Mbarara regional referral hospital. 2. To determine the prevalence of high grade cervical intraepithelial lesions and associated factors among HIV infected young (below thirty years old) women at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. 3. To determine the factors associated with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia tissue Immunological response among HIV infected young (below thirty years old) women attending the colposcopy and cervical pathology clinic of Mbarara regional referral hospital? 4. To determine the epidemiological and prognostic factors associated with cervical cancer precursors among HIV infected young (below thirty years old) women at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
Uganda 2018-08-07 2021-08-07 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
James Musinguzi
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Evaluating the Efficacy of Institutional Systems in the Management of Wildlife Trade in Uganda
REFNo: SS215ES

To establish the nature of the management of wildlife trade in Uganda 2. To examine the influence of the institutional framework on the management of wildlife trade in Uganda 3. To investigate the influence of the legal framework on the management of wildlife trade in Uganda 4. To examine the moderating effect of management factors on the relationship between the institutional and legal framework and the management of wildlife trade in Uganda.
Uganda 2018-08-07 2021-08-07 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
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