Lauben Kyomukama Amagara
ID:
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MROP-Mesh versus Desarda technique for short-term surgical outcomes in open inguinal
hernia repair at Kampala International University Teaching-Hospital: A randomized controlled trial
REFNo: HS1073ES
Purpose of the study/General objective: To compare the MROP-mesh and Desarda techniques for short-term surgical outcomes in open inguinal hernia-repair among patients at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital
Specific objectives
i. To assess the perioperative factors following open inguinal hernia repair with MROP mesh versus Desarda technique at Kampala International University Teaching hospital
ii. To compare the mean operative time used for open inguinal hernia repair with MROP mesh versus Desarda technique at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital.
iii. To evaluate the occurrence rates of pain following open inguinal hernia repair with MROP mesh versus Desarda technique at Kampala International University Teaching hospital.
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Uganda |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Mary Kulabako Kulabako
ID:
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Teachers burnout and students wellbeing in government aided public secondary schools in Uganda
REFNo: SS707ES
i. Examine examples and levels of burnout among secondary school teachers in selected public/government aided schools in Uganda.
ii. Explore how teacher burnout affect students’ wellbeing
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Uganda |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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PETER NABENDE
ID:
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Improving Point-of-Care Learning for Prostate Cancer Imaging using Machine Learning
REFNo: SIR59ES
1. To develop a competence-based educational curriculum and content for teaching prostate cancer imaging tailored to the PoC.
2. To develop an ML-driven gamified interactive PoC education model for prostate cancer imaging.
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Uganda |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Engineering and Technology |
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Non-degree Award |
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Adam Branch
ID:
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Rethinking Vulnerability to COVID-19 Lockdowns in Gulu, Uganda
REFNo: SS786ES
Research questions
(1) Our first research question is: what are the mechanisms by which lockdowns are causing social and economic harm, in particular the hidden harms inflicted upon the most vulnerable?
(2) Our second research question is: How are people adapting to or innovating beyond lockdowns to secure livelihoods and ensure viable futures for themselves and others?
(3) How can lockdowns, and mitigation policies, be designed to minimize harm and support innovative strategies among those most vulnerable to lockdowns’ impacts?
Specific Objectives
(1) To describe the mechanisms by which lockdowns are causing social and economic harm, the hidden harms inflicted upon the most vulnerable people in urban and peri-urban areas of Gulu
(2) To explore people’s adaption to or innovation beyond lockdowns to secure livelihoods and ensure viable futures for themselves and others
(3) To explain how lockdowns and mitigation policies can be designed to minimize harm and support innovative strategies among those most vulnerable to lockdowns’ impacts
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USA |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Julian Natukunda
ID:
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Long-term retention and associated positive practices among Community Client Led ART Distribution groups (CCLADs) in Uganda
REFNo: SS895ES
3. To investigate the association between uncommon practices and long-term retention in CCLADs to confirm uncommon practices are PD behaviors,2. To identify uncommon practices (group and individual) among high retention groups, using the positive deviance approach,1. To assess retention and time for time to withdrawal from CCLAD groups since enrolment in the program ,
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Uganda |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Elodie Freymann Marion
ID:
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Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Medicative Knowledge in Chimpanzees?
Examining Putative Modes and Mechanisms of Information Transmission Between Chimpanzees
REFNo: NS257ES
Homo sapiens are not the only species to self-medicate. Over the last few decades, self-medication has been observed in a variety of primate and non-primate species and throughout a wide range of localities (Janzen, 1978; Huffman, 2016). Non-human self-medication takes many forms and involves a variety of medicinal resources. These include self-medicative resources (SMRs) known to be used in medicinal behaviors like leaf swallowing (Wrangham & Nishida, 1983) and bitter-pith chewing (Huffman & Seifu, 1989), putative therapeutic resources (PTRs) which are irregular dietary items with known bioactive properties, ingested when an individual is ill, and medicinal foods (MFs) which are foods eaten at low frequencies in the absence of symptoms, at certain times of year when their associated medicinal properties are likely most beneficial for preventing future infection or illness (Huffman, 1997). While bioactive and limitedly nutritious botanical species remain the best studied medicinal resources, clay, termite soil, and cambium beneath peeled tree bark are also widely acknowledged as possessing medicinal properties (Pebsworth et al., 2019). In recent literature, many other resource types have been proposed as candidates for further study, including driver ants, honey, ash, and mushrooms, although no studies thus far have empirically established the intentional use of these resources by sick chimpanzees.
Although chimpanzees have been shown to transmit medicinal information to their peers in experimental settings (Huffman & Hirata, 2004; Huffman et al., 2010), the modes, mechanisms, and social learning processes through which chimpanzees transmit medicinal knowledge and behaviors remain untested in free-ranging chimpanzees. This project, titled ‘Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Medicative Knowledge in Chimpanzees? Examining Putative Modes and Mechanisms of Information Transmission Between Chimpanzees’ will consist of three studies, all of which aim to test hypotheses related to intergenerational self-medicative knowledge transmission: the modes and mechanisms facilitating this transmission, and how this knowledge disperses across communities in wild populations. This research will be carried out as part of the completion of Ms Freymann’s DPhil at the University of Oxford.
The first study, titled ‘Gestural Communication During Chimpanzee Self-Medication Events? An analysis of multi-modal signaling between self-medicating models and observers’ will examine whether or not model individuals use specific multi-modal signals and/or increased signaling frequencies to communicate medicinal information to offspring or non-kin observers. The second study, titled ‘Mapping the Self-Medicative Landscape: Do wild chimpanzees revisit medicinal resource sites when seeking treatment?’ will evaluate the presence or absence of habitually utilized SMR sites, to determine whether or not preferred locational ‘hotspots’ exist for chimpanzees within their habitat, and may function as contextual clues to alert chimpanzee observers to the potential onset of a self-medicative event. The third study, titled ‘Evaluating Inter-Community and Intra-Community Variation in Resource Selection and Self-Medicative Behaviors' will evaluate whether or not medicating individuals demonstrate inter-group and/or intra-group variation in their employment of self-medicative behaviors and medicinal resource selection, as well as whether or not social and demographic variables can predict the presence of these variants.
There are two neighboring habituated chimpanzee communities in Budongo forest, the Sonso community, with has ~65 individuals, and the more recently habituated Waibira community which has ~120 individuals. While this research will begin with the Sonso community, if this group becomes unavailable for study due to other scheduled projects, Ms Freymann will flexibly move her data collection to the Waibira community to make the study a cross-community comparison.
Research Questions
1. Gestural Communication During Chimpanzee Self-Medication Events?
• Are gestural signals used at higher frequencies during medicinal events than during normal feeding events?
• Do models use signals at higher frequencies in the presence of an observer during medicinal ingestion events than during medicinal events in which the medicating individual is alone?
• Do medicators increase signaling frequencies during medicinal events based on relatedness to observers?
• Is the proportion of ‘successful’ begging outcomes higher during medicinal events than the proportion of ‘successful’ begging outcomes during normal feeding events?
• Do signaling frequencies between individuals during medicinal events vary based on demographic characteristics or health state?
• Are there specific signals that are used during medicinal events which are not commonly used during normal feeding events?
• Do signal types between models and observers exhibited during medicinal events vary based on social relationships, demographic characteristics, resource type, or behavioral type?
2. Mapping the Self-Medicative Landscape
• Are locations where SMR or PTR ingestion events took place spatially clustered into hot spots?
• Do individuals re-use the same SMR resource hotspots when they are sick?
• Do sick individuals utilize sites with high resource abundance scores over sites where the resource is scarce?
• Do any demographic variables (age, sex and reproductive status) predict which individuals visit which medicinal hotspots?
• When sick individuals travel away from the group to self-medicate, do they choose the most efficient route, foregoing nutritious resources and normal feeding sites to get to the closest available resource, or do they ignore closer sites and return to habitually used sites?
2. Evaluating Inter-Community and Intra-Community Variation in Resource Selection and Self-Medicative Behaviors
• Across all individuals in the community, are specific sickness behaviors correlated with an increase in ingestion of any specific resource type or species?
• Does there appear to be behavioral variation during medicinal events?
• If variation does exist, can horizontal or vertical transmission predict the diffusion pathways of the behavioral variants?
• Does variation in self-medicative behavioral techniques or resource selection appear to be cultural?
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USA |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Mary Grace Nakate Nakate
ID:
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The psychological experience and the Perceived Support of Nurses who Underwent Mandatory Quarantine or Self Isolation During Covid-19 Pandemic in Uganda and Kenya
REFNo: SS877ES
Major Objective
To explore the psychological experience and perceived support of nurses who underwent mandatory quarantine or self-isolation in Uganda and Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Specific Objectives
1.Describe the experiences of depression among the nurses who underwent mandatory quarantine or self-isolation in Uganda and Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2.Examine the anxiety experienced by the nurses who underwent mandatory quarantine or self-isolation in Uganda and Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic.
3.Describe the stressful experiences of nurses who underwent mandatory quarantine or self-isolation in Uganda and Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic.
4.Describe the perceived psychological support of the nurses who underwent mandatory quarantine or self – isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. in Uganda and Kenya
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Uganda |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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ASIIMIRE DONATH
ID: UNCST-2021-R013270
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Women's Economic Empowerment and Changing Family Patterns in Ankole Sub-region
REFNo: SS873ES
Women's eduction and changing family patterns in A nkole.
Earning of Income by women and changing family patterns in Ankole Sub-region.
Women's access and control over productive assets and changing family patterns in Ankole
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Uganda |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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marie nanyanzi
ID: UNCST-2019-R001553
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Sauti Za Wananchi (Voices of citizens) Baseline Survey Panel II
REFNo: SS887ES
o Gather opinions from the citizens on the key services they receive especially
 Establish citizen access to safe water;
 Establish citizen access and usage of health services;
 Establish the citizens attitudes and practices on issues related to COVID-19
 Find out level of participation/involvement/interaction in development and public activities /institutions;
 Find out access and usage of financial services amongst citizens;
 Find out how; what and when citizen access different type of information including government and development information.
 Establish the knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAPs) of citizens on different policies; laws and regulations etc
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Uganda |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Amos Kijjambu
ID:
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EVALUATION OF THE BARRIERS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND VACCINE HESITANCY FOR CHILDHOOD IMMUNISATIONS IN URBAN AREAS; A CASE STUDY OF NANSANA MUNICIPALITY, UGANDA.
REFNo: HS1507ES
General Objective
• To assess the barriers, opportunities, and vaccines hesitancy for childhood immunizations in urban areas to design relevant interventions to improve immunization coverage and improve the health outcomes of children.
Specific Objectives
• To establish the immunization coverage rates in Nansana municipality for children aged under two years.
• To identify factors (parents/guardians-child, health system factors) associated with uptake of immunization for preventable childhood illnesses in Nansana Municipality, Uganda.
• To establish the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy among parents/guardians of children aged <24 months in Nansana Municipality.
• To identify the determinants of vaccine hesitancy among the parents/guardians of children aged < 24 months in Nansana Municipality.
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Uganda |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Nathan Kenya-Mugisha
ID: UNCST-2021-R013752
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Exploring Understanding and Acceptability for Participation in Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials and Delayed Consent Involving Sepsis Patients in Uganda (REVISTA-QUAL)
REFNo: SS913ES
General objective
The overarching goal of this study is to explore patients’, clinical providers’ and caregivers’ understanding of placebo controls, delayed consent and overall acceptability of participation in RCTs involving sepsis patients in a representative Ugandan RRH.
4.3 Specific objectives
1. To describe the patients’, clinical providers’ and caregivers’ understanding of RCTs and the informed consent processes in a representative Ugandan RRH
2. To explore the patients’, clinical providers’ and caregivers’ acceptability of participation in RCTs, including being randomized to a placebo arm and alternative approaches to the consenting process (e.g., delayed consent) for critically ill patients hospitalized in a representative Ugandan RRH.
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Uganda |
2021-07-05 |
2024-07-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Francis Anyanzu
ID:
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The role of social networks in destination selection among urban refugees in Uganda
REFNo: SS519ES
Main objective
To investigate the role of social networks in destination selection among the urban refugees in Uganda
Specific objectives
a) To investigate the socio-demographic characteristics of the urban refugees in Uganda
b) To map the movement histories and social networks of the urban refugees in Uganda.
c) To examine the influences of social networks in the selection of city of destination.
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Uganda |
2021-07-02 |
2024-07-02 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Laban Musinguzi Kashaija
ID: UNCST-2020-R014407
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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) Study on Children with Disabilities (CWD) living in families and institutions in Uganda
REFNo: SS585ES
The study seeks to achieve two primary aims/objectives:
1. To evaluate the current Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) regarding the (i) attributes and conceptualization of CWD (ii) the use of institutional care for CWD and (iii) the barriers/enablers of the full and meaningful integration of CWD into community life.
2. To explore possible interplay between the identified Knowledge/Attitudes and Practices. This includes investigating the relations between the conceptualization/attributes of CWD, the use of institutional care for CWD and the integration of CWD into community life.
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Uganda |
2021-07-02 |
2024-07-02 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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MICHAEL KAWOOYA GRACE
ID: UNCST-2020-R014672
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A Retrospective review of new interventional and selected imaging procedures at ECUREI-Mengo Hospital from 2008-2018
REFNo: HS1053ES
Main Objective
1. To identify diagnostic and interventional radiology procedures at ECUREI radiology department, Mengo Hospital.
Specific Objectives
1. To identify and determine image-guided interventional radiology procedures and related outcomes at ECUREI radiology department, Mengo Hospital from 2008 to 2018
2. To identify and determine diagnostic radiology procedures and related outcomes at ECUREI radiology department, Mengo Hospital from 2008 to 2018.
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Uganda |
2021-07-02 |
2024-07-02 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Pia Raffler Johanna
ID:
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Access to social media during COVID-19:
An analysis of social media's effect on engagement with public affairs and health behaviours in Uganda
REFNo: SS682ES
This study’s objectives are twofold. First, we seek to generate descriptive evidence relating to an important and understudied topic, as outlined in Section 2: social media usage in the Global South, in particular in Uganda. This aspect of our research will generate informative data on the frequency of social media use among peri-urban Ugandans under the age of 40, the types of social media they use, and whether they use it for entertainment, to seek information, or to communicate with fellow citizens and local politicians.
Second, we seek to generate causal evidence regarding the effect of increased access to social media on knowledge and behavior with regards to COVID-19 and public affairs, as well as general measures of wellbeing. With regard to knowledge, this causal component of the study will assess whether greater access to social media can help to inform citizens about public affairs and COVID-19, and the extent to which social media contributes to the spread of misinformation. With regard to behavior, the study will assess whether increased access to social media leads to disengagement from real-life social interactions, increased community and political engagement, and changes in the adoption of safe practices to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With regard to wellbeing, the study will assess whether greater access to social media leads to decreased happiness and wellbeing, as has been found in other contexts such as the United States.
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Germany |
2021-07-02 |
2024-07-02 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Josephine Ataro
ID:
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MANAGEMENT OF INDIGENOUS MATERNAL HEALTH KNOWLEDGE: A CASE OF ACHOLI SUB-REGION, NORTHERN UGANDA
REFNo: SS719ES
i) To examine the existing indigenous maternal health knowledge practices in Acholi Sub-region, Northern Uganda.
ii) To examine the current methods for managing indigenous maternal health knowledge in Acholi Sub-region, Northern Uganda.
iii) To examine the regulatory and policy framework on indigenous maternal health knowledge in Acholi Sub-region, Northern Uganda.
iv) To identify the factors influencing the management of indigenous maternal health knowledge in Acholi Sub-region, Northern Uganda.
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Uganda |
2021-07-02 |
2024-07-02 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Brenda Ainomugisha
ID: UNCST-2021-R013462
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CERVICAL AMNIOTIC FLUID BACTERIOLOGY AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN PREMATURE RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES AT MBARARA REGIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL
REFNo: HS1459ES
General objective
To determine the bacteriology in cervical amniotic fluid, the antibiotic susceptibility and factors associated with antibiotic resistance among women with premature rupture of membranes at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
Specific objectives
1. To determine the prevalence of bacterial growth in cervical amniotic fluid of women with premature rupture of membranes at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
2. To describe the cultured bacteria and antibiotic susceptibility patterns in cervical amniotic fluid of women with premature rupture of membranes at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
3. To identify bacteria using 16s PCR and sequencing method in culture negative cervical amniotic fluid of women with premature rupture of membranes at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
4. To determine the factors associated with antibiotic resistance among women with premature rupture of membranes at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
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Uganda |
2021-07-02 |
2024-07-02 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Dirk Verschuren H
ID:
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Half-precessional solar insolation and the long-term climate history of equatorial East Africa
REFNo: NS121ES
The main objective of this project is to constrain the area of East Africa which has experienced a truly low-latitude climate history influenced primarily by long-term trends in local solar insolation, rather than by the influence of changes in the extent of Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Our working hypothesis is that this area is limited to the region where rainfall originates predominantly from the Indian Ocean rather than the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
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Belgium |
2021-07-01 |
2024-07-01 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Emily Tumwakire
ID:
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Sexual and reproductive health of people with mental illness: Ugandan mental health care worker’s perspectives and experiences.
REFNo: SS911ES
1. To explore Ugandan mental health care worker’s perspectives and experiences on the sexual and reproductive health of people living with mental illness in Uganda.
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Specific Objectives
1. To understand the sexual and reproductive health challenges of people with MI in Uganda from the perspectives of mental health care workers.
2. To identify the current SRH service provisions in the mental health unit from the perspectives of mental health care workers.
3. To explore experiences of Mental Health Care workers in provision of SRH to people with MI in mental health unit.
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Uganda |
2021-07-01 |
2024-07-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Stephen Bugabo Gumisiriza
ID:
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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES IN COLLABORATIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT FOR THE CONSERVATION OF ECHUYA CENTRAL FOREST RESERVE-SOUTH WESTERN UGANDA
REFNo: SS706ES
To assess how fair benefit sharing under CFM has led to the conservation of Echuya Central Forest reserve
To determine the participation of relevant stakeholders in decision making in CFM for the conservation of Echuya Central Forest Reserve
To determine the recognition and respect for relevant actors in CFM for the conservation of Echuya Central Forest Reserve
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Uganda |
2021-07-01 |
2024-07-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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