During the Ebola outbreak that swept through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Lang's team, which specializes in planning and operating trials in vulnerable populations in difficult settings, was tasked with setting up a clinical study of a potential Ebola treatment called brincidofovir.
There is hope these devices will be used in other difficult settings too - from cholera outbreaks to refugee camps.
In statements announcing earlier promotions in Chief Johnson's career, the Police Department portrayed him as an officer with "vast experience" in sometimes difficult settings.
Since the show's debut in the summer of 2000, Mr. Probst has been the host of the competition to win $1 million among those surviving physical and mental challenges in difficult settings.
We usually shoot in remote and difficult settings.
This paper describes the methods of a study that is evaluating the effectiveness of a model of care that pediatricians, even in difficult settings, may provide to improve survival and health of children born with birth defects.
Hence, while we encountered many instances of endurance, resistance and resilience among patients and providers, the narratives of four individuals were chosen as providing particularly rich information on forms of passivity, and emotion- and problem-based coping with health care interactions in difficult settings.
Even the World Bank, with its knowledge base and ability to disburse and monitor funds in some of the most difficult settings in the world, can address problems of health or environment or other specialised concerns only in partnership with UN agencies that have expertise in these specific areas.
However, acute mental health hospitalizations can be difficult settings in which to conduct HIV screening.
Consequently, the magnitude of the association between maternal morbidities, the risk of preterm birth and neonatal morbidity and mortality in these settings is difficult to establish, despite the availability of proven interventions for these conditions [ 10].
