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Megan Swanson
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Identifying Barriers and Facilitators to Cervical Cancer Care in Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: HS29ES

The overall goal of this project is to identify the barriers to cervical cancer care in Kampala, Uganda. Specific aims are as follows:\r\n\r\nAim 1: Describe the prevalence of cervical cancer by stage and factors associated with late versus early-stage diagnoses.\r\n\r\nAim 2: Describe the intervals of time in the process of obtaining care for cervical cancer.\r\n\r\nAim 3: Describe the challenges doctors at referral hospitals face in providing cervical cancer care.\r\n
USA 2017-02-21 2020-02-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Ulrich  Kropiunigg
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Understanding the Preventative and Protective Potential of Fathers: Safeguarding Children from Extremist Influences
REFNo: SS50ES

1.Gain a deeper understanding of extremist mechanisms at the individual psychological/ emotional\r\nlevel from the perspective of fathers.\r\n2.Investigate how fathers can be employed in shielding their children from extremist influences.\r\n3.Develop an understanding of the skills that fathers require in order to effectively prevent and protect\r\ntheir children from extremist influences.
Austria 2017-02-21 2020-02-21 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Laura Bogart
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Game Changers: A Pilot Intervention to Empower HIV Clients as Prevention Advocates in Uganda
REFNo: HS32ES

1) Use qualitative focus group research to assess the feasibility and acceptability of implementing an HIV prevention advocacy intervention with PLHA in HIV care, who will be trained to be advocates of HIV protective behaviours within their social networks.\r\n2) Develop an intervention based on the focus group data and community advisory board and IDI staff input. \r\n\r\nNote: the pilot intervention will be tested in a small randomized controlled trial after it is developed. An amended IRB application will be submitted for the pilot intervention test.\r\n
USA 2017-02-21 2020-02-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Christine Sekaggya-Wiltshire Magdalena Susan
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VIROLOGICAL & CLINICAL OUTCOME OF ADULTS WITH PRETREATMENT OR ACQUIRED HIV DRUG RESISTANCE
REFNo: HS33ES

To describe \r\n• The virological and clinical outcome one year after detection of virological failure and/or HIV drug resistance within the RHINOS study (RHINOS = Resistance in HIV-infected Individuals in North and South).\r\n\r\nFor RHINOS ART experienced with virological failure +/- resistance mutations:\r\n• Proportion of patients switched and not-switched\r\n• Proportion of patients with virological failure switched and not-switched \r\n• Type and frequency of newly diagnosed resistance mutations in patients switched and not switched \r\n\r\nFor RHINOS ART naïve with pre-treatment resistance mutations:\r\n• Proportion of patients initiated on ART \r\n• Proportion of patients started on any drug to which previous HIVDR was detected \r\n• Proportion of patients with virological failure after ART initiation\r\n
Uganda 2017-02-21 2020-02-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Ivan Lukanda Nathanael
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From Lab to Fork? Press Coverage and Audience Perceptions of Crop Biotechnology Systems in Uganda.
REFNo: SS27ES

\r\n• To analyse how the New Vision and Daily Monitor present news about crop biotechnology and the factors that influence news frames;\r\n• To establish the role of the New Vision and Daily Monitor in the uptake of biotechnology among the public;\r\n• To examine the perception of biotechnology in the New Vision and Daily Monitor among actors, and\r\n• To explore the knowledge gaps in the uptake of biotechnology in Ugandan society and make recommendations for integrating print media coverage into public discourse in Uganda.\r\n
Uganda 2017-01-31 2020-01-31 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Imelda Namagembe
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ETHICAL CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED BY RESEARCHERS AND INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS IN EMERGENCY OBSTETRICS –GYNAECOLOGY CARE RESEARCH: A CASE STUDY OF MAKERERE COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES/MULAGO HOSPITAL, UGANDA.
REFNo: HS31ES

General Objective:\r\nTo explore and document ethical challenges encountered in emergency obstetrics-gyneacology research by researchers and IRB members at Makerere College of Health Sciences/Mulago Hospital, Uganda".\r\nSpecific objectives\r\n1) To explore the ethical challenges encountered in emergency obstetrics-gynaecology research by researchers at Makerere College of Health Sciences and Mulago Hospital.\r\n2) To explore the ethical and operational challenges encountered by IRB members when reviewing / monitoring research in emergency obstetrics-gynecology. \r\n3) To document the strategies used by both researchers and IRB members to handle the ethical and operational challenges encountered in emergency obstetrics-gynecology research\r\n
Uganda 2017-01-31 2020-01-31 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Jacqueline Gallo
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How are student leavers’ combined capabilities being developed and/or restricted as they transition out of a Roman Catholic missionary school education in Uganda?: An ethnographic study
REFNo: SS42ES

Educational Research - Girls' Secondary Education in a Religious Institution\r\n\r\n• Understand how student leavers are transitioning out of secondary education into the world, be it into employment, marriage, further education or a combination of the above through the transitioning girls’ own perspectives with context provided by the congregation leadership, school authorities, families, and alumnae;\r\n• Learn how the school is preparing them for their post-secondary school lives;\r\n• Give voice and autonomy to female African students to assess the quality of their educational experience, a voice that is virtually absent from the academic literature; and\r\n• Develop a methodological example that supports Sub-Saharan African educational institutions (including missionary educators and NGOs) to assess the institution's ability to develop student capabilities in a manner that gives dignity to the educational experience and informs the increasingly prioritised education goals in international development discourses.\r\n
USA 2017-01-24 2020-01-24 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Allan Ochieng
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Understanding the need for inoculation of common in Uganda
REFNo: A12ES

Objective 1: Determine the abundance and diversity of indigenous rhizobia nodulating common bean in Uganda and the factors influencing them. This will be achieved by establishing if uninoculated soil from different Agroecological zones (AEZ) differ in the ability to support effective nitrogen fixation and if this difference is related to the abundance and composition of the native rhizobial population.\r\n\r\nSpecific objective 1.1: Estimate the population density of indigenous rhizobia in different soils and determine the effect of the soil properties on the rhizobial population.\r\n\r\nSpecific objective 1.2: Determine the rhizobial composition in different soils and factors that influence it.\r\n\r\nSpecific objective 1.3: Determine the effectiveness of nitrogen fixation of rhizobial populations derived from different soils and factors that influence it.\r\n\r\nObjective 2: Determine the competitiveness of indigenous rhizobial populations from different soils with respect to current strains used for bean inoculation.\r\n\r\nSpecific objective 3: Test effectiveness, adaptability and competitiveness of the identified superior indigenous rhizobia under greenhouse conditions.\r\n\r\nSpecific objective 4: Test effectiveness, adaptability and competitiveness
Uganda 2017-01-17 2020-01-17 Agricultural Sciences Degree Award
John  Lule Ronald
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Baseline Study for an Adolescent HIV and SRHR Programme
REFNo: HS23ES

The objective of this study is to establish baseline values and qualitative information on select project indicators. This information will serve as a basis for Alliance and CHAU to set targets and track changes and progress against these indicators throughout the project period. This information may also serve Alliance and CHAU to inform and shape programming as well as READY project contribution to Uganda national SRHR and HIV outcomes and targets.
Uganda 2017-01-10 2020-01-10 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
JOHN FAITH MAGOLO FAITH
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APPROPRIATENESS OF EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS IN MT. ELGON REGION IN EASTERN UGANDA
REFNo: SS13ES

1. To find out the level of risk Knowledge in the management of the impacts of Climate change in the Mt. Elgon region in Eastern Uganda. \r\n2. To establish the level of technical monitoring in the management of the impacts of climate change in the Mt. Elgon region in Eastern Uganda. \r\n3. To investigate the appropriateness of communication on the management of the impacts of climate change in the Mt. Elgon region in Eastern Uganda.\r\n4. To establish the appropriateness of response capability on the management of the impacts of climate change in the Mt. Elgon region in Eastern Uganda. \r\n
Uganda 2016-12-21 2019-12-21 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
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