Haruna Muwonge
ID: UNCST-2019-R000128
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Surgical Site Infections in a Ugandan Rural Setting: Transmission Dynamics, Risk Factors, Burden, Antibiotic Susceptibility, and Possible Interventions
REFNo: HS7858ES
To design and evaluate a context-specific interventional care bundle for the reduction of surgical site infections in rural Ugandan health facilities,To estimate the economic burden of surgical site infections on patients, healthcare providers, and the health system,To determine antimicrobial susceptibility profiles and transmission dynamics of bacterial pathogens associated with surgical site infections ,To assess clinical outcomes among patients diagnosed with surgical site infections,To identify risk factors associated with the occurrence of surgical site infections in rural Ugandan health facilities,To determine the epidemiology, transmission dynamics, risk factors, treatment outcomes, antimicrobial susceptibility profiles, and economic burden of surgical site infections in rural Ugandan health facilities, and to develop and evaluate a context-specific intervention package for their prevention and control.,
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Uganda |
2026-07-06 14:41:09 |
2029-07-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Betty Nyangoma
ID: UNCST-2025-R022905
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Gut Microbiome and Depression among People Living with HIV in Uganda
REFNo: HS7947ES
1: Characterize gut-microbiome composition and predicted functional pathways among 60 adults living with HIV (PLWH).
2: Evaluate whether gut microbiome composition and predicted functional pathways are associated with HIV-related factors (e.g., viral load, disease duration, and ART regimen) and depressive symptoms among Ugandan adults living with HIV in Kampala.
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Uganda |
2026-06-30 16:37:10 |
2029-06-30 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Laureen Muhairwe Lumina Marie
ID: UNCST-2026-R026157
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PRICING, AVAILABILITY AND AFFORDABILITY OF BRAND AND GENERIC ESSENTIAL
MEDICINES: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA
REFNo: HS8018ES
Aim: To evaluate the pricing, availability, and affordability of brand/originator and generic essential medicines
across public, private, and NGO/mission pharmacy sectors in Uganda, and to identify barriers and facilitators
to generic substitution.
Specific Objectives:
• To determine price differences between originator and generic essential medicines across up to 8
pharmacy facilities in Uganda (public, private, NGO).
• To assess the availability of originator and generic medicines across facility types, expressed as a
percentage of medicines found in stock on the day of the survey.
• To calculate affordability of essential medicines using the days' wage methodology, expressed in days’
wages of the lowest paid government worker.
• To analyse how Uganda's NMP (2015) provisions on generic substitution are implemented in practice,
drawing on pharmacist and key stakeholder perspectives.
• To identify barriers and facilitators to generic medicine dispensing from pharmacist and key stakeholder
perspectives to inform targeted policy interventions.
• To provide evidence-based policy recommendations for Uganda’s Ministry of Health on pharmaceutical
pricing policy, generic substitution enforcement and access to essential medicine access.
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Uganda |
2026-06-29 14:54:17 |
2029-06-29 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Ayebare DavidSantison
ID: UNCST-2025-R023207
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POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS, SUICIDALITY AND SELF-HELP PLUS AMONG SELF-SETTLED YOUNG REFUGEES IN MBARARA CITY, SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA
REFNo: HS7984ES
1.4 Objectives
1.4.1 Broad Objective
To evaluate the effect of the Self-Help Plus (SH+) on posttraumatic stress and suicidality in self-settled young refugees aged 15-24 in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda.
1.4.2 Specific Objectives
1. To determine the prevalence of suicidality among self-settled young refugees aged 15–24 years in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda.
2. To assess the severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms among self-settled young refugees aged 15–24 years in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda.
3. To evaluate the effect of the Self-Help Plus (SH+) intervention on posttraumatic stress symptoms among self-settled young refugees aged 15–24 years in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda.
4. To evaluate the effect of the Self-Help Plus (SH+) intervention on suicidality among self-settled young refugees aged 15–24 years in Mbarara City, southwestern Uganda.
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Uganda |
2026-06-29 14:49:40 |
2029-06-29 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Linette Lubuulwa Marie
ID: UNCST-2026-R024243
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Sustainable Justice through Community Power: A Comparative Participatory Action Study on Legal Empowerment, Civic Space, and Collective Action in Uganda and Rwanda.
RefNo: SS5383ES
REFNo: SS5502ES
? Overall objective: To strengthen evidence-based recognition and support for community justice actors, and increase community power and collective agency to address justice challenges.
? Objective 1: To generate robust, practice-based evidence on the contributions of community justice actors to advancing socio-economic rights and access to justice.
? Objective 2: To strengthen community justice actors as community mobilizers and advocates for socio-economic rights.
? Objective 3: To strengthen community platforms and networks to enable collective action on justice challenges.
? To examine the roles played by community justice actors {community-based paralegals, local mediation committees (Abunzi), and legal empowerment organizations} in enabling communities to claim and defend their socio-economic rights in Rwanda and Uganda.
? To explore and compare the roles of community-based paralegal in Uganda and Rwanda in facilitating community mobilization and collective action to address systemic injustices and enforce socio-economic rights in their immediate contexts.
? To identify the structural barriers which inhibit grassroots organizing and the building of collective power in defending and advancing rights and the strategies that are used to overcome these barriers in Uganda and Rwanda.
? To explore how legal empowerment approaches can complement community mobilization and coalition building to assist marginalized groups to address threats to their rights and develop longer-term and context-specific justice solutions?
? To develop evidence-based recommendations for scalable practices by grassroots justice actors that can be utilized to mobilize collective action and to protect the rights of the most vulnerable.
? To develop evidence-based recommendations for scaling up community mobilization to promote civic engagement, build transformative change and ultimately deepen democracy.
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South Africa |
2026-06-29 14:46:31 |
2029-06-29 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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