SIMON ARUNGA
ID: UNCST-2021-R013498
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TELEPHONE ASSISTED HOME BASED DECISION TOOL TO GUIDE POST-OPERATIVE REVIEW VISITS AFTER ROUTINE CATARACT SURGERY IN AN AFRICAN SETTING (The Telephone Assisted Cataract Tool -TACT-STUDY).
REFNo: HS5948ES
To compare the effectiveness of the TACT versus face-to-face standard of care follow up after routine cataract surgery in a randomized controlled clinical trial (this will be informed by the validation study and will be conducted beyond the scope of this grant application).,To validate the TACT (sensitivity and specificity) in identifying post operative complications and guiding referral visits among patients who had routine cataract surgery ,To develop a telephone assisted home based decision tool (Telephone Assisted Cataract Tool-TACT) to be used by ophthalmic nurse practitioners to triage post operative cataract patients for potential complications,
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Uganda |
2026-07-06 14:42:51 |
2029-07-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Haruna Muwonge
ID: UNCST-2019-R000128
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Surgical Site Infections in a Ugandan Rural Setting: Transmission Dynamics, Risk Factors, Burden, Antibiotic Susceptibility, and Possible Interventions
REFNo: HS7858ES
To design and evaluate a context-specific interventional care bundle for the reduction of surgical site infections in rural Ugandan health facilities,To estimate the economic burden of surgical site infections on patients, healthcare providers, and the health system,To determine antimicrobial susceptibility profiles and transmission dynamics of bacterial pathogens associated with surgical site infections ,To assess clinical outcomes among patients diagnosed with surgical site infections,To identify risk factors associated with the occurrence of surgical site infections in rural Ugandan health facilities,To determine the epidemiology, transmission dynamics, risk factors, treatment outcomes, antimicrobial susceptibility profiles, and economic burden of surgical site infections in rural Ugandan health facilities, and to develop and evaluate a context-specific intervention package for their prevention and control.,
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Uganda |
2026-07-06 14:41:09 |
2029-07-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Betty Nyangoma
ID: UNCST-2025-R022905
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Gut Microbiome and Depression among People Living with HIV in Uganda
REFNo: HS7947ES
1: Characterize gut-microbiome composition and predicted functional pathways among 60 adults living with HIV (PLWH).
2: Evaluate whether gut microbiome composition and predicted functional pathways are associated with HIV-related factors (e.g., viral load, disease duration, and ART regimen) and depressive symptoms among Ugandan adults living with HIV in Kampala.
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Uganda |
2026-06-30 16:37:10 |
2029-06-30 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Laureen Muhairwe Lumina Marie
ID: UNCST-2026-R026157
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PRICING, AVAILABILITY AND AFFORDABILITY OF BRAND AND GENERIC ESSENTIAL
MEDICINES: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA
REFNo: HS8018ES
Aim: To evaluate the pricing, availability, and affordability of brand/originator and generic essential medicines
across public, private, and NGO/mission pharmacy sectors in Uganda, and to identify barriers and facilitators
to generic substitution.
Specific Objectives:
• To determine price differences between originator and generic essential medicines across up to 8
pharmacy facilities in Uganda (public, private, NGO).
• To assess the availability of originator and generic medicines across facility types, expressed as a
percentage of medicines found in stock on the day of the survey.
• To calculate affordability of essential medicines using the days' wage methodology, expressed in days’
wages of the lowest paid government worker.
• To analyse how Uganda's NMP (2015) provisions on generic substitution are implemented in practice,
drawing on pharmacist and key stakeholder perspectives.
• To identify barriers and facilitators to generic medicine dispensing from pharmacist and key stakeholder
perspectives to inform targeted policy interventions.
• To provide evidence-based policy recommendations for Uganda’s Ministry of Health on pharmaceutical
pricing policy, generic substitution enforcement and access to essential medicine access.
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Uganda |
2026-06-29 14:54:17 |
2029-06-29 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Ayebare DavidSantison
ID: UNCST-2025-R023207
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POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS, SUICIDALITY AND SELF-HELP PLUS AMONG SELF-SETTLED YOUNG REFUGEES IN MBARARA CITY, SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA
REFNo: HS7984ES
1.4 Objectives
1.4.1 Broad Objective
To evaluate the effect of the Self-Help Plus (SH+) on posttraumatic stress and suicidality in self-settled young refugees aged 15-24 in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda.
1.4.2 Specific Objectives
1. To determine the prevalence of suicidality among self-settled young refugees aged 15–24 years in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda.
2. To assess the severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms among self-settled young refugees aged 15–24 years in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda.
3. To evaluate the effect of the Self-Help Plus (SH+) intervention on posttraumatic stress symptoms among self-settled young refugees aged 15–24 years in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda.
4. To evaluate the effect of the Self-Help Plus (SH+) intervention on suicidality among self-settled young refugees aged 15–24 years in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda.
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Uganda |
2026-06-29 14:49:40 |
2029-06-29 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Linette Lubuulwa Marie
ID: UNCST-2026-R024243
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Sustainable Justice through Community Power: A Comparative Participatory Action Study on Legal Empowerment, Civic Space, and Collective Action in Uganda and Rwanda.
RefNo: SS5383ES
REFNo: SS5502ES
? Overall objective: To strengthen evidence-based recognition and support for community justice actors, and increase community power and collective agency to address justice challenges.
? Objective 1: To generate robust, practice-based evidence on the contributions of community justice actors to advancing socio-economic rights and access to justice.
? Objective 2: To strengthen community justice actors as community mobilizers and advocates for socio-economic rights.
? Objective 3: To strengthen community platforms and networks to enable collective action on justice challenges.
? To examine the roles played by community justice actors {community-based paralegals, local mediation committees (Abunzi), and legal empowerment organizations} in enabling communities to claim and defend their socio-economic rights in Rwanda and Uganda.
? To explore and compare the roles of community-based paralegal in Uganda and Rwanda in facilitating community mobilization and collective action to address systemic injustices and enforce socio-economic rights in their immediate contexts.
? To identify the structural barriers which inhibit grassroots organizing and the building of collective power in defending and advancing rights and the strategies that are used to overcome these barriers in Uganda and Rwanda.
? To explore how legal empowerment approaches can complement community mobilization and coalition building to assist marginalized groups to address threats to their rights and develop longer-term and context-specific justice solutions?
? To develop evidence-based recommendations for scalable practices by grassroots justice actors that can be utilized to mobilize collective action and to protect the rights of the most vulnerable.
? To develop evidence-based recommendations for scaling up community mobilization to promote civic engagement, build transformative change and ultimately deepen democracy.
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South Africa |
2026-06-29 14:46:31 |
2029-06-29 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Basaliza Edigar
ID: UNCST-2026-R025833
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AGRO-ECOLOGICAL-BASED ADAPTATION APPROACHES FOR DROUGHT RESILIENCE AMONG AGROPASTORAL FARMERS IN UGANDA’S CATTLE CORRIDOR
REFNo: A789ES
1) To characterize the agroecological adaptation practices for drought resilience among agro-pastoral farmers in Uganda’s Cattle corridor.
2) To assess agropastoral farmers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of agroecological adaptation practices in enhancing drought resilience in Uganda’s Cattle corridor.
3) To determine the factors influencing the adoption of agroecological adaptation practices for drought resilience among agropastoral farmers in Uganda’s Cattle corridor.
4) To explore the effect of agroecological adaptation practices on drought resilience and agricultural productivity among agropastoral famers in Uganda’s Cattle corridor.
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Uganda |
2026-06-29 14:37:33 |
2029-06-29 |
Agricultural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Evans Wangwe Nathan
ID: UNCST-2024-R003339
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Leveraging Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning for Early Detection and Management of Hypertension in Uganda
REFNo: HS7810ES
General Objective: To design and evaluate a machine learning predictive model for early detection of hypertension in Uganda.
Specific Objectives:
1. To build and evaluate a predictive model for hypertension using machine learning.
2. To assess the performance and accuracy of the model in predicting hypertension, like accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and the Area Under the Curve (AUC), in recognizing persons at high risk of developing hypertension.
3. To evaluate the usability of the predictive model in the early detection of hypertension.
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Uganda |
2026-06-29 13:46:10 |
2029-06-29 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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George Youssef
ID: UNCST-2025-R023202
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Acceptability of Recover@Home, an At-Home Nursing Follow-up Program after Ambulatory Surgery, Among Healthcare Providers and Community Members in Uganda
REFNo: HS7623ES
To assess the acceptability of the Recover@Home program after ambulatory surgery among healthcare providers and community members in Uganda. To assess the acceptability of the Recover@Home program among healthcare providers who are familiar with the concept and program. To explore the perceptions, attitudes, and acceptability of the Recover@Home program among community leaders and community members.
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USA |
2026-06-29 13:30:49 |
2029-06-29 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Sharley Aloyo Melissa
ID:
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Understanding Co-Morbidities in Rheumatic Heart Disease: Development and validation of diagnostic tests for Group A Streptococcus and common respiratory viral infections in Uganda.
REFNo: HS7765ES
Primary Objective: To develop and validate a Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) based point-of-care test for Group A Streptococcus and common viral pathogens with sensitivity ?95% and specificity ?90% for use by low-cadre health care workers in Uganda.
Secondary Objective
1. To design, optimize, and evaluate a LAMP-based molecular point-of-care diagnostic test cassette for Group A Streptococcus (sensitivity of at least 95% and a specificity of ?90%).
2. To modify the developed test into a multiplexed point of care molecular-based diagnostic test targeting Group A streptococcus and common viral pathogens that cause respiratory tract infections (Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Influenza and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)/COVID-19).
3. To conduct a validation cross-sectional study to compare the diagnostic performance of the newly developed point-of-care test against the throat culture and PCR gold standards.
4. To evaluate the diagnostic performance of a smartphone-based artificial intelligence mobile App in the diagnosis of Group A Streptococcus throat infection
5. To assess the usability and acceptability of the developed point-of-care test and the Mobile App among healthcare workers and participants
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Uganda |
2026-06-29 13:27:53 |
2029-06-29 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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