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DICKSON KALUNGI
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AN ONTOLOGY-BASED MODEL FOR EFFECTIVE CAREER GUIDANCE
REFNo: SIR83ES

1. To establish the requirements for developing an Ontology model for effective Career Guidance
2. To design and develop Ontology sub-models that support 21st century career guidance Services
3. To integrate the developed sub-models into an Ontology model for effective career guidance
4. To evaluate the integrated Ontology model
 Uganda 2022-06-28 17:01:19 2025-06-28 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Naome Wandera Namakula
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Assessing the social and economic impact of COVID-19 on women working in the informal urban economy in Uganda (SPH2022-223)
REFNo: SS1323ES

i) To investigate how COVID-19 policies impacted pre-existing gender inequalities, including GBV/SRH among women workers in informal urban economies. ii) To understand the coping and resilience strategies of IWWs in the context of the pandemic and its effects. iii) To assess women's GBV and SRH experiences, including access to related services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Uganda 2022-06-28 16:53:23 2025-06-28 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Carolyn Pelnik
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Identifying and Easing Constraints on Microenterprise Location within Kampala, Uganda (Experimental Phase)
REFNo: SS1324ES

The study objectives are as follows:
1. To determine whether business relocation within Kampala can increase profits for mobile microentrepreneurs (primary objective)
2. To identify which constraints might restrict microentrepreneurs’ business locations within the city by separately relieving information and liquidity constraints (secondary objective)
 USA 2022-06-28 16:47:30 2025-06-28 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Khamisi Musanje
ID: UNCST-2021-R012863
 Challenges of engaging District Local Governments and Implementing Partners in the District Health Planning Process, a case study of Northern Uganda. A mixed method study
REFNo: HS2314ES

• To identify health implementing partners and their areas of intervention in the selected districts in Acholi and Lango sub-regions of Uganda.
• To determine the level of involvement of health implementing partners and the district health management teams in the development of the district health annual work plan.
• To assess factors influencing the involvement of health implementing partners and the district health management teams in the development of the district comprehensive health annual work plan in the financial year.

Uganda 2022-06-28 16:45:56 2025-06-28 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Andrew Mujugira
ID: UNCST-2019-R000871
 CHOICE-BASED PrEP DELIVERY FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN UGANDA
REFNo: HS2316ES

Aim 1: Identify PRECEDE factors that influence PrEP implementation for transgender people in Uganda.

Guided by the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, which is widely used for public health interventions, we will analyze previously collected qualitative data from four TGP studies and also conduct two new focus groups with TGP and providers to identify predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors that may impact implementation of choice-based PrEP. A stakeholder workshop anchored in good participatory practice will discuss results of the qualitative research and guide design of the optimal choice-based PrEP delivery model for Aim 2.

Aim 2: Offer PrEP choice to transgender people in a DSD model and evaluate implementation and effect on PrEP use (PROCEED).

We will offer choice of CAB-LA or oral PrEP, and choice of facility or community delivery (with option to switch), to 300 HIV-negative TGP with follow-up for 24 months. Adverse events, product switching, and trajectories of choice over time will be monitored and documented. Persistence on CAB LA and oral PrEP will be compared during the choice period, and with a historical cohort without PrEP choice (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04491422). Primary outcomes are choice of PrEP option & delivery model, adherence, and persistence.

Aim 3: Use mixed methods to evaluate how choice influences PrEP use among TGP (PROCEED).
Inductive and deductive analyses based on in-depth interviews with purposively sampled PrEP users (n=50) and providers (n=10) will be used to explain “how” and “why” choice did or did not work and interpret implementation data from Aim 2. Choice preferences will be assessed via structured questionnaires.

Aim 4: Estimate cost implications associated with integrating CAB LA into HIV programs.
We will conduct health system versus client cost analyses to inform budgeting. Costs incurred and averted will be estimated using activity-based micro-costing, study budget, and the literature. Costs and modeled outcomes will be combined to estimate budget impact with PrEP persistence at 6 and 12 months.


 Uganda 2022-06-28 16:44:09 2025-06-28 Medical and Health Sciences Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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