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VICTORIA  NAKIBUUKA
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EVALUATION OF THE UTILITY OF CRP AMONG PRETERMS WITH SEPSIS IN A LOW RESOUCE LIMITED SETTING: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
REFNo: HS96ES

Objective 1: To compare CRP levels versus gestational age categories among preterms with sepsis admitted at Nsambya Hospital Objective 2: To compare the CRP levels versus organisms identified among preterms with neonatal sepsis at Nsambya Hospital Secondary Objectives Objective 3: To compare clinical outcomes versus CRP levels and identified organisms among preterms at Nsambya Hospital Objective 4: To determine bacterial sensitivity patterns among preterm infants with sepsis at Nsambya Hospital.
Uganda 2017-08-07 2020-08-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Brenda Namugumya
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Integrated nutrition strategies beyond paper realities: the case of Uganda
REFNo: SS83ES

The overall research question is “has Uganda’s adoption of integrated nutrition strategies (INS)resulted in actual changes in nutrition governance?” The specific research questions for the study are: 1) To what extent has nutrition been integrated into policy processes at various ministries? 2) What factors are facilitating or inhibiting integration of nutrition in policy processes of various ministries? 3)Have INS been consistently adopted into local government policy processes? 4)How has nutrition service delivery on the ground changed as a result of the adoption of the INS?
Uganda 2017-07-31 2020-07-31 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Stephen Okoboi
ID: UNCST-2019-R001356
 HIV self-testing and linkage to care among Men having sex with Men (MSM). A trial Distribution through MSM networks in The Aids Support Organization (TASO)
REFNo: HS89ES

Aims 1. To conduct assess the barriers and facilitators of a formative research on the distribution strategy of HIVST kits through the peer networks (peers) of MSM Aim 2. To conduct a pilot trial for evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of distributing HIVST kits using peers and linkage to HIV services. Aim 3. To map and analyze the network of connections between peers and the peers they recruited during the trial.
Uganda 2017-07-31 2020-07-31 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Martin Mbonye Kayitale
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Prevalence and incidence of nodding syndrome and other forms of epilepsy in onchocerciasis endemic areas in Northern Uganda after the implementation of biannual mass ivermectin administration
REFNo: HS77ES

Main objective The main objective of this study is to establish the prevalence and incidence rate of NS and other forms of epilepsy in selected parishes in the districts of Kitgum, Pader, Lamwo, Adjumani and Moyo. Based on the epidemiological data available from the 2012 census, a comparison of prevalence and incidence rate from 2016 in different age groups will allow to test whether there is an association between the onchocerciasis interventions, specifically ivermectin use and larviciding rivers and the increase / decrease in prevalence of incidence of NS and other forms of epilepsy. The elaborated epidemiological data from Moyo and Adjumani will allow for comparison of such a potential effect in an area with long standing onchocerciasis control to a recent, intense onchocerciasis intervention program, combined with targeted epilepsy treatment as we find it in Kitgum, Pader and Lamwo today. Specific objectives 1. Compare the 2016 data on prevalence of NS and other forms of epilepsy in the Kitgum, Pader and Lamwo districts with the 2012-13 census study data. 2. Compare the 2016 prevalence of new onset cases of epilepsy (epilepsy onset < 1 year ago) in the Kitgum, Pader and Lamwo districts with the data from the survey data obtained in 2012 and 2013. 3. Establish the prevalence and incidence rate of all forms of epilepsy in the Adjumani and Moyo districts and compare these to the prevalence and incidence rate in Kitgum, Pader and Lamwo districts from 2016. 4. Relate the epidemiological data on all forms of epilepsy from the 5 districts to data concerning onchocerciasis endemicity, ivermectin and larvicide use, and entomological findings. 5. Study the changes in clinical presentation of NS and mortality associated with NS and other forms of epilepsy between 2012 and 2016.
Uganda 2017-07-25 2020-07-25 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Timothy Allen Peter
ID: UNCST-2019-R001369
 Public Authority and International Devlopment
REFNo: SS92ES

The objective is to produce high-quality, evidence-based research that informs local, national and international policies to promote inclusive growth. Inclusive growth in many places in Africa and elsewhere has proved elusive. Formal governance can be remote, development policies persistently fail and humanitarian aid, at best, assists a minority. CPAID will use innovative approaches to research across disciplines and beyond narrow academic concerns. Our research will draw its understandings from ordinary people, and in particular vulnerable, marginalised and excluded groups and populations. CPAID will take public authority as its conceptual starting point, exploring the ways in which governance of people actually occurs. CPAID used the term public authority to refer to all forms of authority beyond the immediate family unit, from clans, religious institutions, aid agencies, civil social organisations, rebel militia and vigilante groups - to formal and semi-formal mechanisms of government. The public authority lens offers a new foundation for development discourse and hence for policy and interventions. It offers a set of tools for exploring African social and political realities. The lens offers an essential means of gathering evidence about these dynamics as well as the challenges and opportunities associated with them. Our research will be organised around studies of public authority at macro and micro levels to analyse: how public authorities regulate moral orders, deal with crimes (including regulation of sexually-based violence and the management of vigilantes), offer a degree of security and justice (including informal policing, and enforcing land rights); tax and redistribute fiscal resources socially and regionally; use and regulate new media technologies (including social media and mobile money); relate to disease control and health promotion (including tablet distribution for parasitic infections, the consequences of Ebola outbreaks and responses to non-biomedical health matters, such as witchcraft and spirit possession); and provide education and other public services (including allocation of land rights and land access). In all areas, we will be asking how public authorities function or do not function for ordinary people (including minorities and excluded sections of society). Our interest is in customary and neo-customary authorities as well as state ones. Distinguishing between state and customary authorities, as well as understanding how they interact, merge or generate hybrid new forms is an ambitious task that requires more grounded research. The research will also outline the processes by which effective and legitimate forms of public authority – those, which are delivering public goods and are inclusionary in orientation (i.e. do not aggressively exclude or oppress vulnerable groups and individuals) can be strengthened in practice. The research will draw upon the extensive research CPAID scholars have done on these issues, notably on the provision of security and justice in conflict affected and fragile settings .CPAID researchers have also made major contributions to the study of health-related institutions – including public health programmes, disease control and local or customary measures to promote wellbeing and the alleviation of suffering.
UK 2017-07-20 2020-07-20 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Carissa  Western Strum
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Emergent Empowerment: Assessing the Impacts of Conflict on Gendered Relations, Identities and Opportunities in Acholiland
REFNo: SS58ES

The research project will seek to explore changes in gender roles and dynamics brought about by conflict in Acholiland, Northern Uganda, and to understand how these changes have affected cultural/traditional ideas about masculinity and femininity and the positions/situation of Acholi women and men in post-conflict society. While research has indicated both local level economic gains, and changes in women’s political participation and representation at the national level, this research will seek to explore, holistically, how changes brought about by conflict impact, both positively and negatively, all aspects of Acholi women (and men’s) lives. The project will therefore prioritize Acholi women and men’s own interpretation of their conflict experiences, and of the impact of conflict-triggered changes on their roles and status within their families and communities. Given the significant role played by NGOs/INGOs in implementing Northern Uganda’s peacebuilding and development agenda, the project will also seek to understand how organizations/stakeholders working in this context are addressing and responding to changing gender norms and dynamics, and whether such approaches are in line with women and men’s own interpretation of their experiences and needs.
Kenya 2017-07-13 2020-07-13 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Sauda Nabukenya
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Traditional institutions,Land, chiefs: The foundation of Law and Legal institutions in Uganda
REFNo: SS84ES

To investigate the role of traditional institutions, land,chiefs and in shaping laws and institutions during the colonial period
 Uganda 2017-07-13 2020-07-13 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Catherine Hobaiter
ID: UNCST-2019-R001480
 Gestural communication in wild mountain gorillas
REFNo: NS23ES

All great apes use gesture to communicate; however, to date, there remains no study of gestural communication in mountain gorillas - an iconic and highly endangered species. Here I hope to establish the first one. My research group has published the repertoire of gestures for wild chimpanzees and wild bonobos; here we aim to establish the repertoire of gestures for wild mountain gorillas and compare and contrast these systems of communication. I will balance data collection across age-sex groups and across behavioural contexts to describe the types of gestures used and the goals for which they are used in mountain gorillas.
 UK 2017-07-13 2020-07-13 Natural Sciences Non-degree Award
henry bazira
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DETERMINANTS OF MALE INVOLVEMENT IN ANTENATAL CARE IN MUKONO DISTRICT, UGANDA
REFNo: HS81ES

1. TO DESCRIBE THE LEVELS OF MALE PARTICIPATION IN ANTENATAL CARE SERVICES IN MUKONO DISTRICT. 2. TO ASSESS MEN’S ATTITUDES TOWARDS MALE INVOLVEMENT IN ANTENATAL CARE SERVICES IN MUKONO DISTRICT 3. TO ASSESS THE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MALE INVOLVEMENT IN ANTENATAL CARE SERVICES IN MUKONO DISTRICT.
Uganda 2017-07-13 2020-07-13 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Jennifer Moodley
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Improving timely diagnosis of symptomatic breast and cervical cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa
REFNo: HS60ES

1. Develop and validate a tool to measure community breast and cervical cancer symptom awareness, knowledge and beliefs in Africa; 2. Describe and compare breast and cervical cancer symptom beliefs, knowledge and awareness in rural and urban settings in two countries in SSA-Uganda and SA; 3. Assess the degree to which symptom overlap between breast and cervical cancer and common infectious diseases influence symptom assessment and help-seeking behavior; 4. Explore primary care level provider interpretation and management of breast and cervical cancer signs and symptoms.
South Africa 2017-06-30 2020-06-30 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Anne Odele
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The meaning, uses and outcomes of functional adult literacy in Uganda
REFNo: SS52ES

The study seeks to describe: \r\n(1) how former literacy participants use the learning from the FAL program in the domains of a) reading, writing and numeracy; and b) their daily livelihoods, and why\r\n(2) the perceived outcomes of applying these practices\r\n(3) the meanings that literacy holds for the participants\r\n
 Uganda 2017-06-27 2020-06-27 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Immaculate Tumwebaze
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Dramatically increased schistosomiasis risk in western Uganda crater lakes – disentangling global climate change impacts and other drivers
REFNo: NS20ES

i. To identify lineages and quantify genetic diversities of both intermediate hosts and their schistosomiasis parasites present in Western Uganda crater lakes. ii. To determine the phylogenetical and biogeographical affinities and dynamics of intermediate host gastropod species and schistosomes in crater lakes along an altitudinal gradient. iii. To asses the variation in physico-chemical water parameters, long-term climatic factors such as temperature and rainfall, and habitat characteristics potentially driving the presence, distribution and (genetic) diversity of intermediate host snails and parasites at different altitudes.
Uganda 2017-06-27 2020-06-27 Natural Sciences Degree Award
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
Lucia Rost Aline
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Negotiating time use: an inter-generational mixed methods approach to intra-household decision-making on care and domestic work in Northern Uganda
REFNo: SS59ES

My research develops an intergenerational approach to understanding intra-household decision-making on time use, especially with regards to time spent on care work—in the post-conflict setting in Northern Uganda.
Germany 2017-06-13 2020-06-13 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
China Scherz Rose
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Investigating the Role of Spiritual Experience and Social Support in Processes of Personal Change: Alcohol Abuse and Therapeutic Pathways in Uganda
REFNo: SS65ES

RESEARCH QUESTION TO BE ADDRESSED BY THIS PROPOSAL 1) How do spiritual experiences influence people’s efforts to change health-related behaviors? 2) How does social support influence people’s efforts to change their health-related behaviors? 3) How are these two factors interrelated?
USA 2017-06-13 2020-06-13 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Sarah Bridge
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Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital Meningitis Registry
REFNo: HS61ES

Our primary goal is to collect clinical, laboratory, demographic, geographic and economic data in real-time on Ugandan meningitis patients and to compile this information into a meningitis registry. Our central hypothesis is that data extracted from this registry can be used to guide meningitis treatment and prevention, improve resource allocation, facilitate treatment distribution networks, improve global data on meningitis and inform health care policy in Uganda and other similar countries in the meningitis belt. Aim 1: To use the FilmArray ME assay and GenExpert Ultra assays, in conjunction with existing CSF testing, to diagnose etiologies of meningitis in children and adults at MRRH. -We hypothesize that the use of FilmArray ME and GeneXpert MTB/RIF Ultra assays at MRRH will allow better characterization of meningitis epidemiology in Uganda and streamline care decisions through the creation of a diagnostic algorithm for meningitis patients. Aim 2: To gather population-based epidemiologic data on meningitis in Mbarara, Uganda, in a centralized meningitis registry. -We hypothesize that creation of a meningitis registry will guide meningitis treatment and prevention, improve resource allocation, facilitate treatment distribution networks, improve global data on meningitis and inform health care policy in Uganda. Aim 3: To gather population based data on the economic impact of meningitis and its complications through cost questionnaires to better characterize the financial burden of meningitis to patients in resource-limited settings. -We hypothesize that the cost burden to patients with meningitis is significant and that a cost-effective analysis will lead to informed recommendations to guide health policy in Uganda.
USA 2017-06-13 2020-06-13 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
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