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Aloysius Ssennyonjo Ssennyonjo
ID: UNCST-2021-R013504
 Evaluating the Impact of the Health Sub-District Strategy on Maternal and Neonatal Health Outcomes in Uganda (2000-2020)
REFNo: HS2169ES

4.To examine lessons learnt, opportunities and recommendations for optimizing the impact of HSD strategy on and health system performance (MNH) in Uganda,3.To explore the mechanisms through which the HSD strategy (and its adaptions) impacted maternal and neonatal health (MNH) outcomes,2.To determine the impact of the HSD strategy on MNH outcomes in Uganda over time and across geographical settings. a)To describe the trends in key health system performance indicators (focusing on MNH) over the same time frame. b) To determine the associations between the HSD strategy and health system performance (MNH outcomes) ,1. To explore how the HSD strategy evolved from 2000 to 2020 and why? a) To describe the critical timelines of the evolution of the HSD strategy. b)To analyze the processes, mechanisms and dynamics that explain the evolutionary process of the HSD strategy,To analyse the impact and underlying mechanisms of the health sub-district strategy on maternal and neonatal health (MNH) outcomes in Uganda from 2000 to 2020. ,
 Uganda 2022-04-07 2025-04-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Musa Sekikubo
ID: UNCST-2021-R014010
 REDUCTION OF MATERNAL AND PERINATAL MORTALITY DUE TO PRE-ECLAMPSIA & ECLAMPSIA
REFNo: HS1473ES

OBJECTIVES

1. To conduct a needs assessment on the management of mothers with pre-eclampsia in select Health centre IIIs, IVs, District Hospitals, Regional Referral Hospitals and National Referral Hospitals in greater Kampala and other regions of the country in the calendar year 2020.
2. To analyse data generated in objective 1with a purpose of getting scalable interventional framework on reduction of maternal and perinatal motility and severe morbidity due to pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
3. To address preventable maternal and perinatal mortality and severe morbidity due to pre-eclampsia and other HDP through implementing the pre-eclampsia interventional framework for a period of one year.
4. Propose key recommendations to the Ministry of Health on identified system challenges that are hindering the accelerated reduction of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality due to pre-eclampsia

 Uganda 2022-04-07 2025-04-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Jessica Kakesa
ID:
Barriers and opportunities to safe abortion in humanitarian settings in Bidibidi Settlement, Uganda
REFNo: HS2130ES

The aim of this study is to describe the abortion experiences of women and girls living in humanitarian contexts, and to generate a representative estimate of the abortion incidence, rate, and ratio.
Democratic Republic of Congo 2022-04-07 2025-04-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Herbert  Ainamani ELVIS
ID:
Exploring parenting styles and children’s task accomplishments during mother-child interactions in southwestern Uganda
REFNo: HS2060ES

1. To assess different parenting styles employed by mothers living in both rural and urban settings of Southwestern Uganda.
2. To examine the association between multivariate factors and parenting styles among the mothers living in Southwestern Uganda.
3. To examine the association between parenting styles and accomplishment of different tasks by the children in Southwestern Uganda.

 2022-04-07 2025-04-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Joseph Ngonzi
ID: UNCST-2019-R001579
 Smart Discharges for Mom & Baby: A cohort study to develop prognostic algorithms for post-discharge readmission and mortality among mother-infant dyads..
REFNo: HS2174ES

To identify gaps and opportunities during in-hospital, discharge, and post-discharge care to inform the future development of an evidence-and risk-based bundle of interventions to improve postnatal care (PNC) for dyads.,To inform the development of an integrated maternal and newborn risk-based post-discharge care program.,To develop and internally validate clinical risk prediction models for identifying dyads at high-risk of death or hospital readmission in the 6 week post-delivery post-discharge period.,
 Uganda 2022-04-07 2025-04-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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