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Jesca Nantume
ID: UNCST-2021-R013984
 Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards the tobacco use control measures among teenagers aged (13-19) years; A cross sectional study in the slum areas of Kampala Uganda
REFNo: SS988ES

To evaluate knowledge, attitudes and practices towards tobacco control among teenagers
aged (13-19) years
1. To evaluate existing control measures among teenagers
2. To assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the current tobacco control
measures among teenagers.
3. To evaluate the cause of initiation of tobacco use in slums among teenagers
 Uganda 2021-09-03 2024-09-03 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Danette Cagnet Lee
ID:
Community-led Total Sanitation Programming and the Maintenance of Sanitation Behaviors
REFNo: SS737ES

The purpose of this qualitative, exploratory, case study research is to better understand stakeholder's, including village community members, village leadership, and CLTS practitioner, perceptions of the facilitators and hindrances to the maintenance of sanitation in the maintenance stage of Community-led Total Sanitation programming in Uganda, East Africa. This study seeks the perspective of and participation of village community stakeholders receiving the Community-led Total Sanitation intervention implemented by the non-governmental organization, Kibo Group International.
 USA 2021-09-02 2024-09-02 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Joyce Kambugu Balagadde
ID: UNCST-2020-R014996
 Acute Leukemia Banking and Biology Study for Patients at the Uganda Cancer Institute.
REFNo: HS1590ES

1. To determine the genomic profile of patients with acute leukemia and identify the prevalence of various fusions and mutations in these patients.
2. To collect and store corresponding subjects’ medical information including diagnosis and disease characterization, laboratory and imaging studies, treatment, and outcome.

 Uganda 2021-09-02 2024-09-02 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
John Baptist Asiimwe
ID: UNCST-2021-R013716
 The Traditional Medicine Practitioner’s Concept of Cancer, its Care, Herbal medicine use and the Patients Perceived benefits (Clinical outcomes) in Selected Districts of Central Uganda.
REFNo: HS1602ES

1. To establish the prevalence and predictors of the use of herbal medicines’ in cancer
2. To explore the concept of cancer and its care in traditional medicine as perceived by traditional medicine practitioners (TMPs) in selected districts of central Uganda
3. To document the herbs used by traditional medicine practitioners (TMPs) to manage cancer in selected districts of central Uganda.
4. To determine the clinical outcomes in patients with cancer treated by traditional medicine practitioners (TMPs).

 Uganda 2021-09-02 2024-09-02 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Moses Adriko
ID: UNCST-2019-R001787
 Gaining community insights into societal causes of and solutions for schistosomiasis transmission hotspots (InSight-ScHot)
REFNo: HS1616ES

To identify non-mass administration preventative chemotherapeutic control measures for schistosomiasis that members of the community see as implementable
 Uganda 2021-09-02 2024-09-02 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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