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REBECCA NANTANDA
ID: UNCST-2019-R001533
 MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA AMONG HIV-EXPOSED AND UNEXPOSED CHILDREN IN UGANDA: BURDEN, GENOTYPES, RISK AND OUTCOME
REFNo: HS56ES

1.To determine the burden of atypical bacterial pneumonia among HIV-exposed and unexposed children with respiratory illnesses in Mulago hospital. 2.To determine the risk factors for atypical bacterial pneumonia among children with acute respiratory symptoms 3.To determine the outcome of children with atypical pneumonia 4.To describe the relationship between the genotypes of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and resistance to macrolide antibiotics.
Uganda 2017-06-21 2020-06-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Julia Modern Keri
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The disability rights movement in Bunyoro, Uganda: human rights, value, and negotiations of belonging
REFNo: SS68ES

Through an ethnographic study of a Disabled Person’s Organisation (DPO) in Masindi District, Bunyoro, Uganda, to investigate the relationship between human rights and questions about personhood, value and dependence. The research will focus on the way that various actors in the disability movement conceptualise and speak about the types of change that are being created in disabled people’s lives through the movement, and how this affects the changes that actually occur in practice.
 UK 2017-06-20 2020-06-20 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Aaron Mulyanyuma Ayeta
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Political parties influencing Uganda's Public Policy Formulation in nascent Hydrocarbon Industry.
REFNo: SS74ES

i. Examine the influence of ideologies of political parties on public policy formulation process in Uganda’s hydrocarbon industry. ii. Assess the influence of political parties’ manifestos and Parliamentary caucuses on Public Policy formulation in hydrocarbon industry in Uganda. ii. Assess the influence of political parties’ manifestos and Parliamentary caucuses on Public Policy formulation in hydrocarbon industry in Uganda. iii. Assess the effectiveness of political party representation in Parliament and their influence public policy formulation in hydrocarbon industry in Uganda. iv. Evaluate challenges affecting political parties in influencing public policy on hydrocarbon industry in Uganda.
 Uganda 2017-06-20 2020-06-20 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Lydia  Nakiyingi
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Outcomes of HIV co-infected presumptive tuberculosis (TB) patients started on TB treatment without bacteriological confirmation of TB
REFNo: HS72ES

GENERAL OBJECTIVES • To determine the outcomes of HIV-infected presumptive TB patients in whom TB treatment is started based on empirical decision-making without bacteriological evidence of TB and to establish non-TB etiology among HIV-infected presumptive TB adults without bacteriological evidence of TB SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES i. To characterize clinical decision-making among HIV co-infected presumptive TB patients without bacteriological confirmation of TB ii. To determine clinical and mortality outcomes of HIV-infected presumptive TB patients who are started on TB treatment based on empirical decision-making without bacteriological confirmation of TB iii. To assess impact of a negative Xpert MTB/Rif test on clinical decision to empirically treat TB among HIV-infected presumptive TB patients iv. To determine non-TB etiology among HIV-infected adult presumptive TB patients without bacteriological evidence of TB
Uganda 2017-06-20 2020-06-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Travis Lybbert
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Innovation & Intellectual Property Policy in the Ugandan Agri-Food Sector: Insights from coffee seed supply chains and tropical fruit processing
REFNo: A16ES

1. To understand the role of innovation and intellectual property (IP) in the Ugandan agricultural sector 2. To identify business, technical, institutional, and policy constraints that limit or otherwise dilute the impact of agricultural R&D, innovation and technology diffusion in the Ugandan agricultural sector
USA 2017-06-19 2020-06-19 Agricultural Sciences Non-degree Award
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