There are about 849 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Uganda. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the pharmacokinetic (PK) properties of antiretroviral (ARV) and anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs administered during pregnancy and postpartum.
Keloids affect upto 16% of Africans causing significant cosmetic, functional and psychosocial distress. Available treatment options are associated with high recurrence and highly variable symptom relief. Autologous adipose derived stem-cells(ADSCs) have been described to have a potential therapeutic benefit in treating keloids. Investigators will compare intra-lesion single dose Autologous Adipose Derived Stem Cells harvested from abdominal fat to Triamcinolone Acetanoide among 15 patients with keloids treated at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala Uganda between September 2020 and August 2021. These patients will be followed up for keloid volume change at three months following treatment.
This study aims to find out whether treating children and young people living with HIV with two anti HIV medicines, dolutegravir and lamivudine, is safe and as effective as the three-medicine anti-HIV treatments currently used in routine practice.
TB-Speed SAM is a multicentric, prospective diagnostic cohort study conducted in three countries with high and very high TB incidence (Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia). It aims at assessing several diagnostic tests that could result in the development of a score and algorithm for TB treatment decision in hospitalised children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM).
This study seeks to determine whether workplace delivery of HIV self-testing will lead to an increase in uptake of HIV testing and subsequent linkage to care or prevention services among men in Uganda.
INTENSE-TBM is randomized controlled, phase III, multicenter, 2 x 2 factorial plan superiority trial assessing the efficacity of two interventions to reduce mortality from tuberculous meningitis (TBM) in adolescents and adults with or without HIV-infection in sub-Saharan Africa: - Intensified TBM treatment with high-dose rifampicin and linezolid, compared to WHO standard TBM treatment. - Aspirin, compared to not receiving aspirin. The trial will be open-label for anti-TB treatment and placebo-controlled for aspirin treatment.
The ENHANCED -SPS study is a before and after cluster randomized trial that will be conducted in 14 public health facilities providing HIV care in Southwestern Uganda. The study will evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-component intervention package that targets barriers to achieving optimal viral suppression among pregnant and postpartum women infected with HIV. This will be in two phases; In Phase 1 ("Before"), all 14 clinics will have a baseline assessment of standard of care VL procedures and assess the barriers and facilitators to viral suppression for a period of 3 months. In Phase 2 ("After"), 7 clinics randomized to control arm will continue to experience standard of care counseling procedures, and 7 clinics randomized to intervention will initiate the ENHANCE-PS intervention. The Phase 2 ("After") phase I will last at least 12 months.
TB-Speed HIV is a prospective multicentre management study evaluating the safety and feasibility of the recently proposed PAANTHER TB treatment decision algorithm for HIV-infected children with presumptive TB. It will be conducted in four countries with high and very high TB (Tuberculosis) incidence (Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Mozambique, and Zambia) which have not participated in the study that developed the PAATHER algorithm.
Research question Is there any association between altered lung bacterial communities and HIV-associated Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)? Rationale Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced dramatic increases in COPD related-morbidity and mortality. Longitudinal studies have shown that people living with HIV develop worsening airflow obstruction with a prevalence higher than that of the general population (i.e 3.4 to 21% compared to 0.4 to 12.2%). It is still unknown why HIV-infected individuals develop COPD at a prevalence higher than their HIV-negative counterparts. It's been hypothesized that a change in the lung bacterial communities in the setting of HIV drives inflammation leading to lung damage. There is a need to explore the dynamics of lung bacterial communities and elucidate mechanisms responsible for irreversible lung damage that may follow lung disturbances in bacterial richness and diversity. In addition, understanding the bacterial communities of the lung in normal subjects is an essential step in providing negative controls to interpret lung microbe in disease states for-example COPD. Insights from this research will inform efforts to design optimal screening and treatment strategies for COPD in the HIV-infected population in sub Saharan Africa. Methods A cross sectional study will be conducted in which lung bacterial communities in 63 HIV infected participants ≥ 35 years with and without COPD will be compared with 63 HIV negative participants with and without COPD. Participants will be recruited from COPD/HIV and LINK Nakaseke cohorts, which were population based studies conducted in the same study setting. Sputum samples will be collected using sputum DNA collection, preservation and isolation Kits. Extracted bacterial DNA will be sequenced and used to determine all bacterial species in the processed samples using available online metagenomics databases. Analysis plan A histogram will be used to display the frequencies of the identified bacterial species in the processed samples. Bacterial richness and diversity of samples in the 4 groups will be compared to determine any differences.
The purpose of this study is to test whether offering incentives to encourage women to attend one-on-one family planning education sessions and offering free, onsite prescription contraceptive methods increases use and continuation of prescription contraception among postpartum women in Uganda. This intervention is modified from one that has been effective outside of Uganda.