Jennifer Moodley
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Improving timely diagnosis of symptomatic breast and cervical cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa
REFNo: HS60ES
1. Develop and validate a tool to measure community breast and cervical cancer symptom awareness, knowledge and beliefs in Africa;
2. Describe and compare breast and cervical cancer symptom beliefs, knowledge and awareness in rural and urban settings in two countries in SSA-Uganda and SA;
3. Assess the degree to which symptom overlap between breast and cervical cancer and common infectious diseases influence symptom assessment and help-seeking behavior;
4. Explore primary care level provider interpretation and management of breast and cervical cancer signs and symptoms.
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South Africa |
2017-06-30 |
2020-06-30 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Anne Odele
ID:
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The meaning, uses and outcomes of functional adult literacy in Uganda
REFNo: SS52ES
The study seeks to describe: \r\n(1) how former literacy participants use the learning from the FAL program in the domains of a) reading, writing and numeracy; and b) their daily livelihoods, and why\r\n(2) the perceived outcomes of applying these practices\r\n(3) the meanings that literacy holds for the participants\r\n
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Uganda |
2017-06-27 |
2020-06-27 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Immaculate Tumwebaze
ID:
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Dramatically increased schistosomiasis risk in western Uganda crater lakes – disentangling global climate change impacts and other drivers
REFNo: NS20ES
i. To identify lineages and quantify genetic diversities of both intermediate hosts and their schistosomiasis parasites present in Western Uganda crater lakes.
ii. To determine the phylogenetical and biogeographical affinities and dynamics of intermediate host gastropod species and schistosomes in crater lakes along an altitudinal gradient.
iii. To asses the variation in physico-chemical water parameters, long-term climatic factors such as temperature and rainfall, and habitat characteristics potentially driving the presence, distribution and (genetic) diversity of intermediate host snails and parasites at different altitudes.
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Uganda |
2017-06-27 |
2020-06-27 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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REBECCA NANTANDA
ID: UNCST-2019-R001533
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MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA AMONG HIV-EXPOSED AND UNEXPOSED CHILDREN IN UGANDA: BURDEN, GENOTYPES, RISK AND OUTCOME
REFNo: HS56ES
1.To determine the burden of atypical bacterial pneumonia among HIV-exposed and unexposed children with respiratory illnesses in Mulago hospital.
2.To determine the risk factors for atypical bacterial pneumonia among children with acute respiratory symptoms
3.To determine the outcome of children with atypical pneumonia
4.To describe the relationship between the genotypes of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and resistance to macrolide antibiotics.
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Uganda |
2017-06-21 |
2020-06-21 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Julia Modern Keri
ID:
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The disability rights movement in Bunyoro, Uganda: human rights, value, and negotiations of belonging
REFNo: SS68ES
Through an ethnographic study of a Disabled Person’s Organisation (DPO) in Masindi District, Bunyoro, Uganda, to investigate the relationship between human rights and questions about personhood, value and dependence. The research will focus on the way that various actors in the disability movement conceptualise and speak about the types of change that are being created in disabled people’s lives through the movement, and how this affects the changes that actually occur in practice.
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UK |
2017-06-20 |
2020-06-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Aaron Mulyanyuma Ayeta
ID:
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Political parties influencing Uganda's Public Policy Formulation in nascent Hydrocarbon Industry.
REFNo: SS74ES
i. Examine the influence of ideologies of political parties on public policy formulation process in Uganda’s hydrocarbon industry.
ii. Assess the influence of political parties’ manifestos and Parliamentary caucuses on Public Policy formulation in hydrocarbon industry in Uganda. ii. Assess the influence of political parties’ manifestos and Parliamentary caucuses on Public Policy formulation in hydrocarbon industry in Uganda.
iii. Assess the effectiveness of political party representation in Parliament and their influence public policy formulation in hydrocarbon industry in Uganda.
iv. Evaluate challenges affecting political parties in influencing public policy on hydrocarbon industry in Uganda.
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Uganda |
2017-06-20 |
2020-06-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Lydia Nakiyingi
ID:
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Outcomes of HIV co-infected presumptive tuberculosis (TB) patients started on TB treatment without bacteriological confirmation of TB
REFNo: HS72ES
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
• To determine the outcomes of HIV-infected presumptive TB patients in whom TB treatment is started based on empirical decision-making without bacteriological evidence of TB and to establish non-TB etiology among HIV-infected presumptive TB adults without bacteriological evidence of TB
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
i. To characterize clinical decision-making among HIV co-infected presumptive TB patients without bacteriological confirmation of TB
ii. To determine clinical and mortality outcomes of HIV-infected presumptive TB patients who are started on TB treatment based on empirical decision-making without bacteriological confirmation of TB
iii. To assess impact of a negative Xpert MTB/Rif test on clinical decision to empirically treat TB among HIV-infected presumptive TB patients
iv. To determine non-TB etiology among HIV-infected adult presumptive TB patients without bacteriological evidence of TB
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Uganda |
2017-06-20 |
2020-06-20 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Travis Lybbert
ID:
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Innovation & Intellectual Property Policy in the Ugandan Agri-Food Sector: Insights from coffee seed supply chains and tropical fruit processing
REFNo: A16ES
1. To understand the role of innovation and intellectual property (IP) in the Ugandan agricultural sector
2. To identify business, technical, institutional, and policy constraints that limit or otherwise dilute the impact of agricultural R&D, innovation and technology diffusion in the Ugandan agricultural sector
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USA |
2017-06-19 |
2020-06-19 |
Agricultural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Lucia Rost Aline
ID:
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Negotiating time use: an inter-generational mixed methods approach to intra-household decision-making on care and domestic work in Northern Uganda
REFNo: SS59ES
My research develops an intergenerational approach to understanding intra-household decision-making on time use, especially with regards to time spent on care work—in the post-conflict setting in Northern Uganda.
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Germany |
2017-06-13 |
2020-06-13 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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China Scherz Rose
ID:
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Investigating the Role of Spiritual Experience and Social Support in Processes of Personal Change: Alcohol Abuse and Therapeutic Pathways in Uganda
REFNo: SS65ES
RESEARCH QUESTION TO BE ADDRESSED BY THIS PROPOSAL
1) How do spiritual experiences influence people’s efforts to change health-related behaviors?
2) How does social support influence people’s efforts to change their health-related behaviors?
3) How are these two factors interrelated?
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USA |
2017-06-13 |
2020-06-13 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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