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Manjari Quintanar-Solares
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MICROARRAY PATCH FOR PEDIATRIC ANTIRRETROVIRAL TREATMENT STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS IN UGANDA
REFNo: HS1359ES

To define the target product profile (TPP) and preferred user characteristics, identify stakeholder needs, and evaluate potential acceptability of a pediatric ARV MAP
 Mexico 2021-08-16 2024-08-16 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Eun Seok Kim
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Cross-sectional prevalence study of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis with nested open-label randomised controlled study of evaluating the impact of fatty meal co-administration and double-dosing on albendazole effectiveness against hookworm infection among school-aged children in Mayuge district: Implications for Mayuge NTDs Elimination (MANE) Project
REFNo: HS1411ES

Objective 1: To determine the effect of albendazole administration with a fatty meal such as avocado, versus albendazole administration without a fatty meal, on hookworm cure rate and egg reduction rate.

Objective 2: To determine the effectiveness of dual-dose (400mg/day, two consecutive days) versus single-dose (400mg) albendazole treatment regimens on hookworm cure rate and egg reduction rate.

Objective 3: To identify and evaluate environmental, social and cultural variables affecting hookworm infection, and cure rate and egg reduction rate of albendazole against hookworm.

 South Korea 2021-08-16 2024-08-16 Medical and Health Sciences Clinical Trial Degree Award
Carmen  Logie
ID: UNCST-2021-R013185
 Kuwawezesha Vijana (Empowering Youth): An HIV Self-Testing and Comic Intervention with Refugee Adolescents and Youth in a Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda
REFNo: SS884ES

The primary study aim is to compare the effectiveness of adding HIV self-testing, education- comics, or both to the standard of care approaches of HIV testing among refugee youth in Bidi Bidi in increasing HIV status knowledge.
The primary outcome is HIV testing uptake (HIV status knowledge, verified through asking HIV serostatus and verifying with voluntary point of care testing).
The secondary outcomes include HIV knowledge, HIV-related stigma, use of SRH services (e.g., condoms, contraception), and linkage to a clinic for confirmatory testing.
 Canada 2021-08-16 2024-08-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Doris Kakuru
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Representation of Young Motherhood: Performing young womanhood, subjectivities and agency in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Uganda
REFNo: SS960ES

To find out the implications of representations of young motherhood on reproductive justice,To establish alternatives of young parenthood which are made available through motherhood performances by young mothers in Uganda (Including their lived experiences, identity formation and agency to adhere, comply or resist dominant subjectivities). ,To examine how dominant notions about young motherhood affect SRHR rights of young mothers in Uganda.,To ascertain how dominant assumptions of young motherhood by different SRHR actors position young mothers in urban poor locales in Uganda. ,
 Uganda 2021-08-16 2024-08-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Rosalind  Parkes-Ratanshi Parkes
ID: UNCST-2019-R000717
 Acceptability and feasibility of mhealth technology for sensitization and contact follow up for high-risk communities for infectious disease outbreaks; Call for Life-COVID (CFL-C) and Call for Life Ebola (CFL-E)
REFNo: SS865ES

1.To document experiences of using an IVR service to support COVID positive patients and for those in COVID quarantine.
2.To evaluate the acceptability of using an IVR service for post COVID-19 mental health screening in Uganda.
3.To assess feasibility of using an IVR service for outbreak response, through documentation of the experience and lessons learned of using CFL-C by health care workers, policy makers, developers and implementing actors
4.To explore barriers and enablers to health seeking behaviour and vaccinations, perceptions/ stigma/ fears/concerns of COVID and other epidemic outbreaks including EVD and mitigation measures (e.g. cancelling funerals – Ebola, school and business closures – COVID, including comparisons of the two) within at risk and hard to reach communities.

UK 2021-08-16 2024-08-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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