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FREDDIE SSENGOOBA Peter
ID: UNCST-2021-R011834
Mapping the ecosystem for health financing decision-making and prioritization for Refugee Health Policy Community in Uganda.
REFNo: SS1855ES

To perform a critical appraisal of the resource allocation process for refugee health at National (Implementing partners, and subnational level (implementing Partners, district health officers). ,To explore how inter-organizational relationships are structured at each level to support decision making processes for financing refugee health. ,To map out the key players involved in the decision-making process for financing refugee health in Uganda. ,To identify priority setting and resource allocation practices for refugee health.,To map the decision-making process for the financing of refugee health in Uganda.,
Uganda 2023-07-05 11:40:14 2026-07-05 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Ninsiima Lesley Rose
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Prevalence and factors associated with hypertension among Type 2 Diabetic patients attending private hospitals in Kampala District, Uganda
REFNo: HS2828ES

To explore the facility-based barriers of hypertension management among patients with T2D in private health facilities in Kampala. ,To determine the factors associated with hypertension among patients with type 2 diabetes in private facilities in Kampala. ,To assess the prevalence of hypertension among patients with type 2 diabetes in private facilities in Kampala. ,To determine the prevalence of hypertension and factors associated with hypertension among T2D patients in private hospitals in Kampala district. ,
Uganda 2023-07-05 11:38:01 2026-07-05 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Abel Wilson Walekhwa Wilson
ID: UNCST-2021-R011571
PILOTING THE FEASIBILITY OF COMMUNITY-BASED LIVESTOCK ABORTIONS REPORTING FOR IMPROVED SURVEILLANCE OF RIFT VALLEY FEVER DISEASE IN ISINGIRO DISTRICT, UGANDA
REFNo: A264ES

1. To design and pilot a community-based early warning surveillance system for potential RVF in Isingiro district in Uganda based on self-reported cases of livestock abortions from farmers to demonstrate feasibility. 2. To measure stakeholders’ attitudes and awareness of RVF and willingness to participate in a community-based early warning surveillance system and potential RVF vaccination programme. 3. To design and pilot a training module for increasing the index of suspicion for Rift Valley Fever disease among clinical and non-clinical health workers in the high-risk district of Isingiro, Southwestern Uganda.
Uganda 2023-07-05 11:36:35 2026-07-05 Agricultural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Achilles Katamba
ID: UNCST-2019-R000540
RE-IMAGINING TB CARE: TRANSFORMING WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW SERVICES ARE ACCESSED AND DELIVERED IN TB AFFECTED COUNTRIES
REFNo: HS2975ES

3. To identify and prioritize product innovations to roll-out that will provide decentralized, integrated and people centered TB Services ,2. To identify & prioritize opportunity areas to provide decentralized, integrated and people centered TB Services ,1. To assess people’s unmet needs & preferences to provide decentralized, integrated and people-centered TB services.,The study aims at increasing and improving the provision of decentralized (where people live, work, etc.), integrated (for TB and across communicable and non-communicable diseases), and people-centered (considering people’s preferences and circumstances, including their mental and financial well-being) TB services in Uganda. ,
Uganda 2023-07-05 11:34:43 2026-07-05 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Klein Harmonie
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Social dynamics across communities of Wild Eastern Chimpanzees (Pan t. schweinfurthii) in Uganda
REFNo: NS539ES

The project aim is to shed new light on the degree of sociality and cooperation underlying social living in wild chimpanzees. In doing so, I hope to gain a better understanding of chimpanzee behaviour and of the evolutionary trajectory of ape and human sociality
France 2023-07-05 10:39:47 2026-07-05 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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