Social vulnerability and precarious housing conditions expose DUs to a greater risk of HCV transmission because they are dependent on others for injection, less able to anticipate the time of injection and prepare safely the necessary equipment.
In addition 14,000 people are affected, mostly families in situations of poverty and social vulnerability, living in precarious dwellings close to river banks and in zones prone to flooding.
Bringing greater vulnerability to lives already precarious.
With today's technology advances that can predict most drought episodes before they happen, what comes into sharp focus is the need to reduce the causes of vulnerability that make communities precarious to changes in the weather.
Legal status is also a factor contributing to greater vulnerability, due to a precarious social and employment situation, despite the fact that, in some contexts, health care is universal [ 96, 97].
"If people remain at risk of slipping back into poverty because of structural factors and persistent vulnerabilities, development progress will remain precarious," Clark said.
For the Administration, the latest flareup was a new lesson in the President's political vulnerability on Lebanon and how precarious is the support for his policy.
The balance between controlling infection and limiting inflammation is particularly precarious in the brain because of its unique vulnerability to the toxic effects of inflammation.
The reasons for this vulnerability cluster are the age and precarious quality of the housing, accompanied by social issues: massive deindustrialization, high unemployment, and other associated factors.
The main factor leading to contamination of reservoir A was the vulnerability to infiltration due to its precarious state of conservation.
For the many Romanian immigrants already working illegally in Spain, this stance is hardly helpful, since their vulnerability is largely the result of their precarious legal position.
