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Prem Ramburuth
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Empowerment in the Workplace: Women in Africa
REFNo: SS304ES

Objective of the study

There are several dimensions that highlight the importance of the study. The objective of this study is to facilitate deeper understanding of issues of gender bias in the workplace in a sample of countries in Africa, and in sectors where women do much of the work but receive the lowest levels of pay and the least recognition, which in turn results in financial constraints.

Specific objectives

1. To understand the place and importance of empowerment of women in the workplace.
2. To investigate the range of factors that could act as barriers to women’s inclusion and gender equity.
3. Identify areas for change and inform policy on women’s empowerment in both formal and informal economies.

 Australia 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Dorsa Amir
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Decision-making across cultures
REFNo: SS308ES

The aim of this study is to understand how children learn to make virtuous decisions – that making the right decision-- about resources and how children learn to invest cost and effort in resources that benefit the public community. We plan to determine how these behaviors develop and change with age and how they influence cooperation in children all over the world.
 USA 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Grace  Turyasingura
ID:
RNAseq, secretome and HIV infection analyses of foreskin epithelial cells upon exposure to cervicovaginal fluid from healthy vs. women with bacterial vaginosis.
REFNo: HS426ES

Primary Objective (Aim 1): Compare the gene expression and secretome profile of primary foreskin epithelial cells following exposure to CVF from normal vs. BV women.
Hypothesis: BV CVF will induce an elevated pro-inflammatory and pro-chemotactic response in foreskin epithelia compared to normal CVF.
 Endpoints: Global gene expression by RNAseq
Secretome profiling by Luminex

Secondary Objective (Aim 2): Assess whether HIV-1 can directly infect primary foreskin epithelial cells following exposure to CVF from women with or without BV.
Hypothesis: HIV will infect foreskin epithelial cells in the presence of HIV- enhancing seminal amyloids, in a manner enhanced by BV CVF.
Endpoints: Assess CCR5/CD4 expression in foreskin epithelial cells, and their susceptibility to productive infection by HIV-1, following exposure to BV-CVF vs. normal CVF.

 Uganda 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
FLORENCE ANOBE KOMAKECH ANOBE
ID:
Sustainable WASH systems Concept One Uganda.
REFNo: SS341ES

1.To investigate factors leading to success or failure of PAYF tariff collection to incentivize preventive maintenance arrangements for sustaining hand pumps.
2.To assess the possible mechanisms of exclusion from water services that exist in communities where PAYF is implemented, and how PAYF either causes or addresses these exclusion mechanisms.

Uganda 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Emmanuel Mande
ID: UNCST-2023-R007045
 TESTING MEDICINAL PLANTS IN UGANDA FOR LATENCY REVERSING ACTIVITY
REFNo: HS436ES

Primary objective: To prepare soluble extracts in water and hexane from 100 different recognized medicinal plant species growing in Mabira Forest of Central Uganda.
Secondary objectives: To test these extracts for HIV latency reversing activity

 Uganda 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
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