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NAASSON TUYIRINGIRE
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Metabolomics Approaches to Elucidate the Mechanisms of Action of Antimycobacterial Medicinal Plants
REFNo: HS422ES

The main objective is to elucidate the mechanisms of action of antimycobacterial medicinal plants using metabolomics. The specific objectives are:
1. To determine the metabolome of M.tb subjected to medicinal plant extracts with antimycobacterial activity as compared to control culture
2. To optimize an analytical metabolomics workflow to facilitate reproducible measurements of bacterial metabolome with extract treatment or without the treatment
3. To elucidate the metabolic pathways affected by plant extracts
4. To identify the macromolecule targets of plant extracts

 Rwanda 2020-02-21 2023-02-21 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Jean Damascene Niyonsenga
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Exercise and well-being: NCD risks and constraints to Physical Activity and sports participation among Ugandan rural and urban secondary school students
REFNo: HS490ES

1. To examine the correlation between NCDs risk factors and level of physical activity/sports participation, type of eaten food, and lung function among both rural and urban secondary school students in Mbarara, uganda
2. To establish constraints to PA/sports participation of secondary school students in rural and urban schools in Mbarara, Uganda.
3. To examine the relationship between internal motivation and external support for PA/sports participation for secondary school students in rural and urban schools of Mbarara, Uganda.
4. To determine the commonest sustained injuries and to establish the proportion attributable to PA/sports among rural and urban secondary school students in Mbarara, Uganda.
5. To compare constraints and injuries identified by secondary school students from rural and urban schools in Mbarara, Uganda.

 Rwanda 2020-02-21 2023-02-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Robert Kairania
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Exploration of psychological distress and cross-cultural adaptation of a mental health measure for people living with HIV in Rakai, Uganda
REFNo: SS408ES

Aim 1: To characterize local manifestations of psychological distress among people living with HIV in rural communities in Rakai, Uganda

Aim 2: To identify and cross-culturally adapt appropriate mental health measurement instruments based on findings from Aim 1.

Aim 3: To validate the adapted mental health measurement instrument within the rural Rakai population.

Uganda 2020-02-21 2023-02-21 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Vincentina Achora
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Postpartum haemorrhage in Northern Uganda: Community perspectives; burden and associated factors; Health Facilities preparedness for its management; and outcomes
REFNo: HS518ES

1. To explore the community perspectives of PPH in Lira district.
2. To assess the level of health facilities preparedness for management of labour, delivery and postnatal care in prevention of PPH in Lira district.
3. To describe the burden and factors associated with PPH among mothers delivering in Lira district and Lacor Referral hospital.
4. To describe the factors associated with outcomes of PPH among mothers delivering in Lira district and Lacor Referral hospital.

 Uganda 2020-02-21 2023-02-21 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Maria Nakku Elizabeth Mirembe
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Women in Higher Education: An Ethnographic Case Study of Women Lecturers and Administrator Experience in Selected Universities in Uganda
REFNo: SS410ES

1. To investigate how women lecturers and administrators advance the institutional mission of teaching, scholarship, and service in selected universities in Uganda
2. To explore how the culture of higher education shape and affect women leadership
3. To examine the obstacles and challenges do women experience as lecturers and administrators in higher education
4. To assess common attributes and strategies support women’s success in higher education teaching and administration in Uganda


 Uganda 2020-02-21 2023-02-21 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
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