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Charles Mondo Kiiza
ID: UNCST-2019-R001281
A Randomized, Double-Blind, Efficacy and Safety Study of AR 14 (AZILSARTAN MEDOXOMIL) Treatment and Withdrawal, Followed by an Open-Label Extension, in Children 6 to Less Than 18 Years of Age With Hypertension
REFNo: HS113ES

Primary objective: To evaluate the antihypertensive effect of AZM compared with placebo after a randomized, double-blind, withdrawal (Withdrawal Phase). Secondary objectives: To evaluate the antihypertensive effect of AZM compared with losartan during double-blind treatment (Double-Blind Phase). Additional Objectives: To assess the population pharmacokinetics of azilsartan derived from AZM.
Uganda 2017-11-20 2020-11-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Heather Brown
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Epidemiology of Traumatic Injuries in Masindi, Uganda
REFNo: HS115ES

The purpose of this study is to characterize the incidence, patterns, and severity of injury among patients presenting to MKMC.
USA 2017-11-20 2020-11-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Madelyn Prevost
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The Entrepreneurial Spirit: Crafting subjects with regimented health and religion
REFNo: SS122ES

This project is intended to further the knowledge on HIV/AIDS, Catholicism, Non-Governmental Organizations, poverty, and work in a Ugandan context as globalization, greater access to medicine, and modernity change the cultural landscape. In addition to furthering scholarly knowledge, this project will also, ideally, help the site organization, Reach Out Mbuya remain relevant in the changing climates of donor funding, client needs, and HIV prevalence rates. Reach Out is a Catholic-based HIV/AIDS organization that seeks to provide holistic care to clients and their families through medical care, material support, subsistence projects, counseling, HIV prevention, and peer support. In Kampala, Reach Out has community sites in Mbuya, Banda, and Kinawatak; they also have an additional site in Kasaala. I will likely draw all of my participants from the Mbuya, Banda, and Kinawataka site locations; as a volunteer, I will spend most days at Mbuya, but also do work in Banda and Kinawataka sites weekly. Therefore, I will be more known to staff and clients at these locations, making recruiting participants smoother. Building off literature that demonstrates how an HIV diagnoses affects a person’s sense of self and habits (Wekesa and Coast [2013]; McGrath et al [2014]); Whyte [2014]; Bartos and MacDonald [2000]), I propose that HIV, as well as comprehensive aid programs can have unique and varied affects on a person’s employment and livelihood. Adding to this argument, I will draw on literature dealing with subject formation (how a person’s identity and behaviours are formed and changed through processes and interactions), both in secular and Christian contexts (Foucault [2000]; Koopman [2013]; Skinner [2012]; Tambling [1990]; Norget, Napolitano, and Mayblin [2017]). Using this literature, I will argue that it is a combination of the regimented HIV/AIDS treatment schedule and Catholic belief and practice encouraged and facilitated by Reach Out that creates a socially responsible and productive subjects in their clients. Working from this hypothesis, my project asks three primary questions: (1) How might being HIV positive affect an individual’s work, livelihood, and/or employment, and what role might religion play in the extent of these effects? (2) How does Reach Out’s comprehensive, holistic-based approach complement services provided by the government? (3) How does being HIV positive affect one’s social and/or economic standing, and one’s capability to remain in care?
Canada 2017-11-20 2020-11-20 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Robert Borst Adriaan Johannes
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Exploring the impact of governing community health workers through a community health entrepreneurship model: protocol for a mixed-method research project
REFNo: HS58ES

Aim: To evaluate the impact of organising community health services through a social franchise model. Research objectives: To assess the association between exposure of inhabitants to the Healthy Entrepreneurs social franchising model and several health related factor and 2) To explore the performance and motivation of the community health workers enrolled in the Healthy Entrepreneurs model.
Netherlands 2017-11-14 2020-11-14 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Lara Rosenoff Gauvin Shelley
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We are Sons and Daughter of Bwoc: Refusal and Land Rights Protections in Rural Post-Conflict Acoliland, Northern Uganda.
REFNo: SS112ES

To understand: What do processes involved in writing a clan-based non-profit foundation’s constitution (in a previously oral tradition of indigenous governance) do for relatedness in the post-conflict, land-pressured context? After it is written, and circulated, what does the document do for relatedness in context? How does/can it mediate both between sons and daughters of the clan, and between clan members, National Government, and foreign companies, as examples? And finally, how do real and perceived land pressures impact ideas and practices of relatedness, and thus social repairing and particular notions of refusal, through time.
Canada 2017-11-14 2020-11-14 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
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