In particular, participants with SCI spoke about using the emergency departments as means to access primary care services due to various challenges in accessing a general practitioner.
It is common that people living in rural areas of developing countries like Uganda have challenges in accessing health services, and sometimes, even when they manage to access the health centre, they find that drugs are out of stock.
Women face significant challenges in accessing health services at these critical stages which is shaped by their access and control of resources, as well as the prevailing gender norms and values.
"Aspiring lawyers face increasing challenges in accessing the profession.
A reader from Ghana, aged 23, said people in rural areas face the biggest challenges in accessing long-term contraception.
"When you combine this with a shortage of affordable homes and continuing high rates of youth unemployment, young people across the country are facing huge challenges in accessing the two things they need most to leave homelessness behind – a home and a job".
Nomads encounter challenges in accessing and utilizing the services of trained midwives or other skilled maternal health service providers.
Challenges in accessing education for conflict-affected young people are reported in other conflict settings, e.g. Sri Lanka (Earnest 2013), Rwanda and Burundi (Obura and Bird 2009).
We outline the challenges in controlling the handedness of ssNA templated assemblies as well as challenges in accessing either of two helical geometries using the same ssNA template.
The majority of nomads (60 %) are found in Africa, where they face numerous challenges in accessing health care services compared to settled populations (Sheikh and Velema 1999; Maro et al. 2012).
Challenges in accessing health care and medication and risk factors for HIV and hepatitis C infection (HCV) were more prevalent among former inmates, especially immediately after release (Adams et al. 2011; Hawkins et al. 2010; Kulkarni et al. 2010).
