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Alex Ssebaana
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Infrastructure and Socio-economic Development of Jinja: A case of the Busoga Railway 1912-1990
REFNo: SS2367ES

1.To analyse the relationship between the railway and the development of the economy and infrastructure of Jinja between the 1912 and 1990. 2.To examine changes in the welfare of railway and industrial workers and their families in and around Jinja between the 1912 to the 1990. 3.To examine how railway and industrial workers and their families in and around Jinja understood their participation in development from the 1912 to the 1990.
 Uganda 2024-03-14 18:36:41 2027-03-14 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Harriet Birabwa-Oketcho
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FORMAL AND ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES FOR SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS: AN EXPLORATIVE PHASED MIXED METHODS STUDY MAPPING PATTERNS AND PERSPECTIVES ON USE AND COLLABORATION
REFNo: HS3616ES

1. To determine the patterns of use of AHCPs among patients with severe mental illness.
2. To determine factors associated with use of AHCPs among patients with severe mental illness.
3. To explore perspectives of persons with severe mental illness and their caregivers regarding use of AHCPs and formal healthcare.
4. To explore perspectives of health care personneland AHCPs regardinguse offormal service providers and the AHCPs.
5. To explore perspectives of health care personnel and AHCPs regarding collaboration between formal service providers and the AHCPs.
 Uganda 2024-03-14 18:34:15 2027-03-14 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Charles Halerimana
ID: UNCST-2023-R006835
 EFFECT OF VEGETAL DIVERSIFICATION AT THE LANDSCAPE AND PLOT SCALES ON THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF MAJOR ROBUSTA COFFEE PESTS AND THEIR NATURAL ENEMIES IN UGANDA
REFNo: A375ES

1. To determine the effect of landscape structure (composition and configuration of land use cover) on the dynamics of CBB, BTB and their natural enemies.
2. To determine the effect of plot vegetal diversity (shading system, shade trees diversity, functional traits of the trees) and farm management practices on the dynamics of CBB, BTB and their natural enemies.
3. To decipher the effect of the plot structure and the farm management practices on the multi-pests profile and quantify the interactions between the pests (multi-pest approach)
4. To rank the individual and joint effects of vegetal diversification at each spatial scale (within the plot and between plots) on pests dynamics and natural enemies’ populations.

 Uganda 2024-03-14 18:30:01 2027-03-14 Agricultural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Pontiano  Kaleebu
ID: UNCST-2020-R019901
 Field Performance Evaluation of the TrinScreen™ HIV rapid test kit
REFNo: HS3878ES

1. To describe the performance (sensitivity and specificity) of the TrinScreen™ rapid test, when compared to the national testing algorithm.

2. To describe the performance (sensitivity and specificity) of the TrinScreen™ rapid test compared to the reference testing (Genscreen ULTRA HIV1/2 Ag/Ab EIA followed by the Murex diasorin HIV1/2 Ag/Ab combination).


3. Estimate the proportion of inconclusive test results by Trinscreen™

Uganda 2024-03-14 12:38:09 2027-03-14 Medical and Health Sciences Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Clare NAKAZIBWE
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The Systemic Analysis of Disability Support Infrastructures in Humanitarian Context with Specific Focus on Ugandan Refugee Settlements
REFNo: SS2419ES

What formal and informal emotional supports are available to persons with disabilities and their caretakers in Uganda’s refugee settlements?

What formal and informal instrumental (tangible) supports are available to persons with disabilities and their caretakers in Uganda’s refugee settlements?

What formal and informal informational supports are available to persons with disabilities and their caretakers in Uganda’s refugee settlements?

What formal and informal companionship supports are available to persons with disabilities and their caretakers in Uganda’s refugee settlements?


Uganda 2024-03-14 12:34:59 2027-03-14 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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