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Richard Tuhairwe
ID: UNCST-2023-R007692
 KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TOWARDS THE USE OF TELEMEDICINE TO ACCESS SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES: A CASE OF MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN UGANDA (KAUSTER STUDY).
REFNo: HS3731ES

Broad objective
To determine the knowledge and attitude of undergraduate students at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) towards the use of telemedicine to access sexual and reproductive health services.
Specific objectives
i. To assess the knowledge of undergraduate students at MUST of the availability of telemedicine to access sexual and reproductive health services.
ii. To examine the attitudes of undergraduate students at MUST towards the use of telemedicine to access sexual and reproductive health services.
iii). To explore the determinants of knowledge and attitude of undergraduate students of MUST towards the use of telemedicine to access sexual and reproductive health services.
 Uganda 2024-01-29 15:22:43 2027-01-29 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Mia Appelbäck
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Experiences of patients, caretakers and healthcare providers in the referral process for post-partum haemorrhage and other obstetric emergencies to Kawempe National Referral Hospital
REFNo: HS3589ES

Explore the women’s, their partners’ and/or other caretaker’s perception of the implications of the near-miss postpartum haemorrhage event, e.g., health and socioeconomic consequences.,Explore women’s, their partners’ and/or other caretaker’s experience of effective communication, respect and preservation of dignity and emotional support within the maternal healthcare and referral system,Map women’s journey, as well as influencing factors, through the healthcare and referral system from onset of labour to near-miss postpartum haemorrhage , through her, her partner’s and/or other caretaker’s perspective ,To better understand the women’s, their partners’ and/or other caretaker’s perspectives of near-miss postpartum haemorrhage event in the healthcare and referral system,Explore healthcare workers at Kawempe National Referral Hospital perceptions of challenges and facilitating factors when receiving referred obstetric emergencies.,Map the referral process from referring institute to national referral hospital as perceived by healthcare providers,Investigate what challenges and facilitating factors healthcare providers experience in the referral of obstetric emergencies to a higher-level institutions,Explore what factors affect decision-making in the referral of obstetric emergencies to a higher-level facility,To better understand the referral system for obstetric emergencies, primarily PPH, from healthcare providers´ perspectives. ,
 Sweden 2024-01-29 15:21:02 2027-01-29 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Jonathan Kayondo
ID: UNCST-2021-R008325
 TARGET MALARIA UGANDA PROTOCOL B2- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: MAINTENANCE OF WILD TYPE An. gambiae COLONIES IN THE ARTHROPOD CONTAINMENT LEVEL 1 (ACL1) INSECTARY AND HANDLING METHODS OPTIMIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Version 1.0 2023
REFNo: NS694ES

1.To Maintain the wild-type Anopheles strains Ag(WT) in the Uganda ACL1 insectary.
2.To support research and development preparatory studies in the insectary.
3.Support to Field Entomology, Stakeholder Engagement Regulatory activities.
4.To develop Staff capacity in preparation for research and development.

 Uganda 2024-01-29 15:19:10 2027-01-29 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Japheth Kwiringira Nkiriyehe
ID: UNCST-2019-R000408
 What do beneficiaries in the agro sector value chain consider Significant Change from Women Economic Empowerment?
REFNo: SS2141ES

Main Objective
What do beneficiaries of Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) consider significant in their lives?
Specific objective
i) To establish firsthand contextual accounts of what beneficiaries consider WEE to be.
ii) To explore what WEE beneficiaries consider as significant in their life.
iii) To identify ways to improve women economic empowerment interventions

 Uganda 2024-01-29 15:15:11 2027-01-29 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Engineer  Bainomugisha
ID: UNCST-2023-R005928
 AirQount: Autonomous vehicle emissions estimation system for low-resource cities
REFNo: SIR277ES

1. Design and build custom hardware for vehicle image capturing system for traffic data collection for training machine learning (ML) models
2. To collect traffic and vehicle data, curate and label the video streams and images resulting in usable datasets for training the AI models
3. Build a machine learning (ML) and computer vision-based system for vehicle recognition and classification that can be linked at available databases on vehicle estimation per vehicle.
4. To build a prototype software system that integrates the hardware and AI models for demonstration of the automated traffic emission estimation system
5. To pilot the developed software and hardware systems and assess their use in vehicle emissions understanding
 Uganda 2024-01-29 15:11:28 2027-01-29 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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