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Rachael MacLeod
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A prospective observational study of intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH) in a neonatal cohort in Uganda: The IVHU Study.
REFNo: HS299ES

Overall objective To study the proportion of low birth weight (LBW) babies affected by IVH and to assess the severity of and risk factors for IVH and outcomes after IVH at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in eastern Uganda over a 6-month period. Specific objectives In LBW neonates in a Ugandan population: • Describe the proportion of babies affected by IVH. • Describe the timing and severity of IVH. • Describe the incidence of complications including ventriculomegaly and cerebellar involvement, as well as other pathologies such as periventricular white matter changes with and without cystic change (PVL). • Determine the neonatal morbidities and neonatal mortality associated with IVH. • Describe risk factors associated with IVH.
UK 2019-01-22 2022-01-22 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Timothy Wakabi Waiswa
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LINKAGE BETWEEN SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI INFECTION IN BABOONS AND HUMANS WITHIN FISHING VILLAGES OF KASESE AND RUBIRIZI DISTRICTS IN QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
REFNo: HS293ES

i. establish prevalence of S. mansoni in baboons and humans living in the fishing villages and factors associated with the infection ii. assess the knowledge and perception of people living in fishing villages in and around QENP on transmission of zoonotic Schistosomiasis iii. determine the geospatial and genetic relationship between S. mansoni in baboons and humans in fishing villages in and around QENP iv. assess feasibility of stakeholder-identified interventions for addressing Schistosomiasis within the fishing villages
Uganda 2019-01-22 2022-01-22 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Ivan Kimuli Ronald
ID: UNCST-2019-R000577
Viral load monitoring among HIV infected patients at Mulago Hospital: Perceived barriers and facilitators
REFNo: HS261ES

1. To describe the viral load cascade at the HIV clinic of Mulago National referral hospital 2. To explore the barriers to and facilitators of viral load monitoring among HIV-infected adults at Mulago Hospital
Uganda 2019-01-15 2022-01-15 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Florence Brisset-Foucault
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Registering and Identifying People in Uganda A Historical Approach
REFNo: SS210ES

Today, norms and practices of biometric identification are objects of global fascination, curiosity, anxiety or scrutiny. Yet, in the case of Africa, identification documents have hardly been central to scholarship. In order to fill this important gap, this study proposes to focus on the history of official/administrative documents of identification in Uganda, as objects of governmentality (Foucault, 2004). A great variety of identification documentation will be included, as empirical objects of study: birth certificates, voters’ cards, introduction letters by Local councils, party-membership cards, as well as other forms of nominative documentation such as land certificates and drivers’ licenses. The idea is that the daily uses of these objects and the popular representations attached to them will inform us on the parameters of public action, ordinary social life, the imagination of identities and civic cultures. By better understanding Ugandans' previous experiences of identification, it is expected that this research will inform best practices in terms of the documentation and verification of identities, and of the implication of these processes on the State and on society.
France 2019-01-15 2022-01-15 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Alex  Maxwell
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'Post-conflict recovery in Gulu (North Ugandan Acholiland): Examining the impact of a decade of ex-combatant re-integration interventions on the coping strategies of communities, their social capital and the state of civil society.'
REFNo: SS243ES

This research aims to explore how viable ways of life are constituted by local communities in the North Ugandan post-conflict scenario. The post-Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) peacebuilding project by the international community in Northern Uganda has resulted in no repeat of violence since the end of the conflict. However, there has been little effort to learn from the Ugandan experience concerning the critical conditions, which enables social repair to become possible following displacement by armed conflict. This research seeks to understand how displacement and return have affected social repair through the perceptions and understandings of the local people concerned. This contrasts with the focus from the perspective of ‘ex-combatants’ in the peacebuilding literature which analyses reintegration interventions. This research focuses on an under researched area: the role of the community in the post-conflict reintegration process. The research uses a case study approach (detailed by Yin, 1989) with a focus on life histories, to examine how local communities in Gulu, often referred to as the ‘recipients’ of international projects, have negotiated reintegration and social repair through their interactions with ex-combatants. Further, the research examines how external intervention has affected the Gulu communities’ own understandings of life after conflict within a ten year period (2008-present).
UK 2019-01-15 2022-01-15 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
BOSCO AGABA BEKIITA
ID: UNCST-2019-R000549
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL POINT-OF CARE RDTs FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM WITH PFHRP-2 GENE DELETION AT VARYING MALARIA TRANSMISSION SETTINGS IN UGANDA
REFNo: HS282ES

1. To determine the sensitivity of a range of malaria rapid diagnostic tests using microscopy as gold standard under the varying malaria epidemiological settings in Uganda 2. To determine the specificity of a range of malaria rapid diagnostic tests using microscopy as gold standard under the varying malaria epidemiological settings in Uganda 3. To establish the positive and negative predictive value of a range of malaria rapid diagnostic tests under the varying malaria epidemiological settings in Uganda 4. To determine the prevalence and geographical location of P.falciparum parasites with pfhrp2 gene deletion
Uganda 2019-01-15 2022-01-15 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Gloria  Odei Adobea
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Utility of mid-upper arm circumference in case detection, admission, monitoring treatment and referral of children 6-59 months with severe acute malnutrition in Karamoja: a retrospective analysis
REFNo: HS304ES

To assess the utility of MUAC as an indicator for case detection, admission, monitoring treatment and referral of children 6-59 months with SAM in Karamoja.
Ghana 2019-01-15 2022-01-15 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Emmanuel Kiiza Mwesiga Kiiza
ID: UNCST-2019-R001588
COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AMONG PATIENTS WITH A FIRST EPISODE OF PSYCHOSIS IN UGANDA: ASSESSMENT, RISK PROFILE AND IMPACT ON QUALITY OF LIFE.
REFNo: HS142ES

1. To review the evidence on the assessment of cognitive function using brief neuropsychological tests in patients with FEP in sub Saharan Africa. 2. To determine the validity of cognitive assessments delivered using a smart phone application in patients with FEP in Uganda. 3. To determine mean duration and factors associated with resolution of psychotic symptoms among patients with FEP in Uganda. 4. To determine the association between genetic and environmental factors (childhood trauma and DUP), and the development of CI in patients with FEP in Uganda. 5. To determine the association between impairment in specific cognitive domains and quality of life in patients with FEP in Uganda.
Uganda 2019-01-08 2022-01-08 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Patrick Ogwok
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Mediators of dietary and physical activity behaviors among women of reproductive age in urban Uganda-Kampala.
REFNo: HS290ES

To understand factors explaining dietary behaviors among women of reproductive age (18 to 45 years) living in Kampala To understand factors explaining physical activity behaviors among women of reproductive age (18 to 45 years) living in Kampala
Uganda 2019-01-08 2022-01-08 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Thereza Piloya Were
ID: UNCST-2019-R000491
VITAMIN D STATUS; ASSOCIATED CLINICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL FACTORS AMONG CHILDREN INFECTED WITH HIV AT BAYLOR PAEDIATRIC CLINIC, KAMPALA UGANDA
REFNo: HS294ES

1. To determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among HIV infected children and adolescents aged 6 months-12 years at Baylor Paediatric HIV Clinic, Kampala. 2. To determine the clinical and biochemical factors associated with vitamin D among HIV- infected children and adolescents.
Uganda 2019-01-08 2022-01-08 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
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