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MUTEEBWA LABAN
ID: UNCST-2022-R010550
Barriers and facilitators of the intention to use, and the preferred model for HIV Self-Testing among young women in the Kampala Metropolitan Area
REFNo: HS5167ES

4. To assess factors associated with the intention to use HIVST services among AGYW in KMA.,3. To determine the preferred model for delivering HIVST services among AGYW in KMA.,2. To explore the barriers and facilitators influencing the use of HIVST services among AGYW in KMA,1. To determine the level of intention to use HIVST services among AGYW in KMA ,To determine the level of intention to use HIVST services, the influencing barriers and facilitators, associated factors and the preferred model for delivering HIVST services among AGYW in the KMA, Uganda.,
Uganda 2024-11-18 22:50:43 2027-11-18 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Hannah Kibuuka
ID: UNCST-2020-R014355
Secondary Analysis Protocol entitled “Biomarker-guided patient stratification for diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of severe infectious disease at the point of need"
REFNo: HS5187ES

Transition existing host-based biomarker classifiers to protein and nucleic acid based fieldable detection devices to validate and optimize performance
Uganda 2024-11-18 22:47:28 2027-11-18 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Edgar Mulogo Mugema
ID: UNCST-2023-R008170
Getting Malaria “off the backs” of women and children in western Uganda
REFNo: HS4758ES

The scientific objective is to demonstrate the protective effect of permethrin-treated lesus against P. falciparum malaria in infants and young children.,
Uganda 2024-11-18 13:40:11 2027-11-18 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Catherine Nabbumba
ID: UNCST-2024-R002912
Genome wide association studies and polygenic prediction of major depressive disorder in samples of African ancestry from Uganda
REFNo: HS5159ES

1) investigate the prevalence and sociodemographic and clinical correlates of MDD among general outpatients attending care at 5 hospitals in Uganda
2) undertake a systematic review on common genetic variants associated with MDD among respondents of non-European ancestry using different datasets from PGC
3) explore common genetic variants associated with MDD in 2 African samples (ED6 study (n=150 cases, 150 controls) (A) and NeuroGAP study (n=324 cases, 876 controls) (B))
4) optimise a PRS for MDD initially developed from MDD-PGC datasets for use in the African setting of Uganda

Uganda 2024-11-18 13:36:01 2027-11-18 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
THOMSON LAKWO LURONI
ID: UNCST-2023-R007843
Evaluating the specificity and cross-reactivity of Mansonella perstans sera against biomarkers for Onchocerca volvulus and Wuchereria bancrofti
REFNo: HS4889ES

To evaluate the specificity and cross-reactivity of M. perstans sera against biomarkers of O. volvulus and W. bancrofti.
Uganda 2024-11-18 13:34:32 2027-11-18 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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