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COMFORT ANKUNDA
ID: UNCST-2024-R004433
The Role of Sport in Social inclusion and integration in Sweden and Uganda
REFNo: SS3768ES

Objectives
The primary objective of the study is explore how sport facilitates or otherwise hinders social inclusion and integration especially for vulnerable children and youth including those with a migrant background, living in poor families or affected HIV/AIDS or other disasters. The study will explore the following questions:
1. How is social inclusion and integration understood and defined by the children, youth and staff in sport-based projects that contribute to social inclusion and integration and by other relevant actors and stakeholders?
2. How do the involved young people perceive and experience the sport-based projects that contribute to social inclusion and integration they participate in?
3. What enables or limits beneficiaries’ and leaders’ participation in the different levels of sport-based initiatives that contribute to social inclusion and integration?
4. What needs to be done to improve the active participation of children and youth in their own social inclusion and integration processes?

Sweden 2025-07-22 16:30:39 2028-07-22 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Linda Adiru Atiku
ID: UNCST-2024-R015308
Laboratory-Based Surveillance for Eschar-Associated Rickettsial Infections in Uganda
REFNo: HS5142ES

1. To retrospectively identify any eschar swabs collected during January 1, 2021, through November 30, 2024 as part of routine anthrax surveillance that are positive for Rickettsia spp.
2. To prospectively identify any eschar swabs collected beginning December 1,2024 through December 31, 2025 as part of routine anthrax surveillance for diagnostic purposes that are positive for Rickettsia spp.
3. To describe the epidemiology of persons with rickettsial infection identified from eschar swabs collected for anthrax surveillance.

Uganda 2025-07-22 15:53:57 2028-07-22 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
OLIVERCAROLINE WOKALI
ID: UNCST-2025-R017008
Prevalence and factors associated with neurodevelopmental impairment among children with and without HIV from infancy to prepuberty at Mbarara: a multi-center study
REFNo: HS6174ES

1. To determine the prevalence of neurodevelopmental impairments among children with and without HIV 2. To determine the factors associated with neurodevelopmental impairments among children with and without HIV
Uganda 2025-07-22 15:52:51 2028-07-22 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Reagan Suubi
ID: UNCST-2025-R018154
The Influence of Communication on Youth Engagement in Agripreneurship in Kamuli District, Uganda
REFNo: SS4050ES

Identify the different sources of agripreneurship information the youth agripreneur’s have access to.

Identify the types of agripreneurship information received by the youth in Kamuli district.??

Identify the different communication channels used by the youth in Kamuli district when receiving information.??

Explain the different challenges faced by youth when accessing information.??

Describe how the information received by the youth is being utilized in agripreneurship
Uganda 2025-07-22 15:45:40 2028-07-22 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Esther Nduati Nyambura
ID: UNCST-2024-R002923
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH DELAYED TIME-TO-PRESENTATION AND OUTCOMES AMONG SEVERE TRAUMA PATIENTS ADMITTED TO MULAGO NATIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL EMERGENCY UNIT
REFNo: HS5557ES

This study aims to investigate the factors associated with delayed time-to-presentation to the emergency department and assess the outcomes of severe trauma patients admitted to Mulago National Referral Hospital (MNRH) Emergency Unit.
Kenya 2025-07-22 15:43:45 2028-07-22 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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