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Isaac Ssewanyana
ID: UNCST-2020-R014336
Performance Evaluation of the Alinity m HIV-1 Assay using DBS for Detection of HIV-1 in Infants.
REFNo: HS2586ES

To verify the performance (sensitivity and specificity) of the Alinity m HIV-1 Qualitative Test against routine Cobas Ampliprep/Taqman HIV-1 Qualitative Test Version 2.0 (DBS)- for early diagnosis of HIV-1 in exposed infants. ,
Uganda 2022-12-12 15:23:01 2025-12-12 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Brian Kiira Alex
ID:
Emerging Ethics and Human Rights Issues in the Digitization of Population Register Systems
REFNo: SS1383ES

1. To nurture a new generation of scholars and practitioners via direct mentoring from senior scholars and experienced practitioners in the field, immersion into academic, policy and practitioner networks, debates and institutions, exposure and visibility through publications and communications based in the global South. 2. To support active collaboration between fellows as well as between IUSSP, WiSER, ISER and IIGH-USC. 3. To nurture a generation of scholars who will challenge experienced practitioners, senior scholars and established systems to consider new perspectives, rethink established assumptions and question dominant paradigms for population register systems. 4. To facilitate stronger engagement by population scientists on contemporary issues and support interdisciplinary collaboration with established scholars from other disciplines and early career researchers and practitioners around ethics and human rights in the digitization of population register systems.
Uganda 2022-12-09 12:35:52 2025-12-09 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
FRED SEMITALA COLLINS
ID: UNCST-2020-R014096
Differentiated Services Delivery Outcomes in Uganda: Facilitators, barriers, and qualitative systems mapping.
REFNo: HS2497ES

To evaluate the performance and quality of DSD models in the delivery of HIV/TB services in Uganda.
Specific Objectives:
1. To assess the performance and Quality of intensive and less intensive DSD models of care for HIV/TB TB services in Uganda.
2. To elicit stakeholders’ perspectives on facilitators of and barriers to improved DSD performance in Uganda.

3. To identify system elements (systems mapping) and determine how their relationships in health care affect both positively and negatively the performance of DSD service delivery in Uganda.

Uganda 2022-12-08 15:05:56 2025-12-08 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
David Mafigiri Kaawa
ID: UNCST-2019-R001276
Rapid Anthropological Study in Districts Affected by Ebola (Sudan Strain) in Uganda
REFNo: SS1542ES

The general objective of this study is to explore the socio-cultural construction of the drivers of the current Ebola virus disease (EBV) transmission and community resistance to Ebola response strategies in Uganda
Uganda 2022-12-08 13:08:41 2025-12-08 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Barasa Chemutai Mercy
ID:
LEVERAGING TEACHER CONCERNS IN CURRICULUM REFORM: A MIXED METHODS STUDY OF SELECTED GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN UGANDA
REFNo: SS1541ES

iv. To explain the relationships between curriculum reform strategies, teacher concerns and the quality of implementation of the LSC using themes emerging from interviews with teachers, school administrators, and national education officials. ,iii. To compare the influence of support strategies by school administrators on the nature of teacher concerns and the quality of implementation of the curriculum in three different school contexts.,ii. To determine the extent to which teacher concerns mediate the relationship between the curriculum reform strategies and the quality of implementation of the CBC.,i. To investigate the nature of the concerns of Ugandan secondary school teachers about the CBC.,to determine the role of teacher concerns in the lower secondary curriculum reform process in Uganda by investigating the relationships between the strategies of curriculum reform, the concerns of teachers implementing the reform, and the quality of the curriculum implementation, and hence to explore ways in which change facilitators can leverage teacher concerns for successful reform.,
Uganda 2022-12-08 12:19:11 2025-12-08 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Simon Nampindo Takozekibi
ID: UNCST-2022-R009914
Population Census of African Lion and Spotted Hyena in Murchison Falls Protected Area, Uganda
REFNo: NS447ES

To estimate the density and abundance of the African lion and spotted hyena in Murchison Falls National Park, Bugungu and Karuma Wildlife Reserves using the Spatially Explicit Capture-Recapture (SECR) framework.
Uganda 2022-12-08 12:16:46 2025-12-08 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Rose  Nabatanzi
ID:
Characterization of the latent reservoir among HIV-infected individuals on long-term antiretroviral therapy
REFNo: HS2454ES

1. To validate the intact proviral DNA assay in measuring the latent HIV reservoir size for HIV subtypes A and D
2. To compare the size of the latent HIV reservoir among HIV-infected optimal and suboptimal immune responders on long-term ART
3. To compare the size of the latent HIV reservoir between subtypes A and D among HIV-infected individuals on long-term ART
4. Determine the levels of T cell immune activation/exhaustion among ART-treated individuals comparing subtypes A and D.

Uganda 2022-12-08 12:15:54 2025-12-08 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Dinah Amongin
ID: UNCST-2020-R014663
ACCESS TO HIV, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA SERVICES: A GENDER-BASED ASSESSMENT FOR UGANDA
REFNo: HS2549ES

1. To determine the extent to which Uganda is achieving targets of gender interventions in the National HIV&AIDS Strategic Plan (NSP) 2020/21 to 2024/25 and the Sustainable Development Goals.
2. To determine progress against national gender-related targets, highlight key issues affecting gender and HIV, TB as well as malaria responses and the actions needed.
3. To explore communities’ perspectives on the performance and benefits of gender and HIV, TB and malaria response interventions.
4. To generate recommendations aimed at enhancing social accountability, quality and efficiency of interventions in the gender and HIV, TB and malaria response in Uganda.

Uganda 2022-12-08 11:40:48 2025-12-08 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Moses Muzaale
ID: UNCST-2022-R009515
Investigating the predictors of acceptability of cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV in Kalungu district.
REFNo: HS2573ES

Goal of the study:
To investigate the predictors of acceptability of cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV in Kalungu district.

Specific objectives:
a) To examine the individual factors influencing acceptability of cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV in Kalungu district.
b) To assess the institutional/health facility factors that influence acceptability of cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV in Kalungu district.
c) To investigate the socio-economic factors influencing cervical cancer screening acceptability among women living with HIV in Kalungu district.

Uganda 2022-12-06 16:31:30 2025-12-06 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Bjorn Van Campenhout -
ID: UNCST-2020-R014080
Quality and food safety in the Ugandan dairy value chain
REFNo: SS1520ES

To measure the impact of visualizing milk quality attributes to farmers and milk collection centers (MCCs) on the compositional quality of milk (butter fat content and solid non-fat content) at both levels.
Belgium 2022-12-06 16:29:54 2025-12-06 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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