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Laura Bogart
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Game Changers: A Pilot Intervention to Empower HIV Clients as Prevention Advocates in Uganda
REFNo: HS32ES

1) Use qualitative focus group research to assess the feasibility and acceptability of implementing an HIV prevention advocacy intervention with PLHA in HIV care, who will be trained to be advocates of HIV protective behaviours within their social networks.\r\n2) Develop an intervention based on the focus group data and community advisory board and IDI staff input. \r\n\r\nNote: the pilot intervention will be tested in a small randomized controlled trial after it is developed. An amended IRB application will be submitted for the pilot intervention test.\r\n
 USA 2017-02-21 2020-02-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Christine Sekaggya-Wiltshire Magdalena Susan
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VIROLOGICAL & CLINICAL OUTCOME OF ADULTS WITH PRETREATMENT OR ACQUIRED HIV DRUG RESISTANCE
REFNo: HS33ES

To describe \r\n• The virological and clinical outcome one year after detection of virological failure and/or HIV drug resistance within the RHINOS study (RHINOS = Resistance in HIV-infected Individuals in North and South).\r\n\r\nFor RHINOS ART experienced with virological failure +/- resistance mutations:\r\n• Proportion of patients switched and not-switched\r\n• Proportion of patients with virological failure switched and not-switched \r\n• Type and frequency of newly diagnosed resistance mutations in patients switched and not switched \r\n\r\nFor RHINOS ART naïve with pre-treatment resistance mutations:\r\n• Proportion of patients initiated on ART \r\n• Proportion of patients started on any drug to which previous HIVDR was detected \r\n• Proportion of patients with virological failure after ART initiation\r\n
 Uganda 2017-02-21 2020-02-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Ivan Lukanda Nathanael
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From Lab to Fork? Press Coverage and Audience Perceptions of Crop Biotechnology Systems in Uganda.
REFNo: SS27ES

\r\n• To analyse how the New Vision and Daily Monitor present news about crop biotechnology and the factors that influence news frames;\r\n• To establish the role of the New Vision and Daily Monitor in the uptake of biotechnology among the public;\r\n• To examine the perception of biotechnology in the New Vision and Daily Monitor among actors, and\r\n• To explore the knowledge gaps in the uptake of biotechnology in Ugandan society and make recommendations for integrating print media coverage into public discourse in Uganda.\r\n
 Uganda 2017-01-31 2020-01-31 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Imelda Namagembe
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ETHICAL CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED BY RESEARCHERS AND INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS IN EMERGENCY OBSTETRICS –GYNAECOLOGY CARE RESEARCH: A CASE STUDY OF MAKERERE COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES/MULAGO HOSPITAL, UGANDA.
REFNo: HS31ES

General Objective:\r\nTo explore and document ethical challenges encountered in emergency obstetrics-gyneacology research by researchers and IRB members at Makerere College of Health Sciences/Mulago Hospital, Uganda".\r\nSpecific objectives\r\n1) To explore the ethical challenges encountered in emergency obstetrics-gynaecology research by researchers at Makerere College of Health Sciences and Mulago Hospital.\r\n2) To explore the ethical and operational challenges encountered by IRB members when reviewing / monitoring research in emergency obstetrics-gynecology. \r\n3) To document the strategies used by both researchers and IRB members to handle the ethical and operational challenges encountered in emergency obstetrics-gynecology research\r\n
 Uganda 2017-01-31 2020-01-31 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Jacqueline Gallo
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How are student leavers’ combined capabilities being developed and/or restricted as they transition out of a Roman Catholic missionary school education in Uganda?: An ethnographic study
REFNo: SS42ES

Educational Research - Girls' Secondary Education in a Religious Institution\r\n\r\n• Understand how student leavers are transitioning out of secondary education into the world, be it into employment, marriage, further education or a combination of the above through the transitioning girls’ own perspectives with context provided by the congregation leadership, school authorities, families, and alumnae;\r\n• Learn how the school is preparing them for their post-secondary school lives;\r\n• Give voice and autonomy to female African students to assess the quality of their educational experience, a voice that is virtually absent from the academic literature; and\r\n• Develop a methodological example that supports Sub-Saharan African educational institutions (including missionary educators and NGOs) to assess the institution's ability to develop student capabilities in a manner that gives dignity to the educational experience and informs the increasingly prioritised education goals in international development discourses.\r\n
 USA 2017-01-24 2020-01-24 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
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