That's avoidable.

Inviting the Avoidable

Africa s Avoidable AIDS Crisis

Jennifer Healey If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable

That is to say, it's a big change, but it isn't avoidable.

The principal reason is that in times of crisis people fall into predictable but avoidable errors, largely because of panic. Over time, detailed protocols have evolved for such confusing situations to encourage cool headedness and minimize the risk of avoidable error.

That of the firefighter as victim, sent without proper knowledge into an avoidable, man made catastrophe.

The group suggested that conflicts of interests affecting members of the board should, if they are not avoidable, at least be disclosed.

The scandalous fact that 30,000 children die from avoidable diseases every day demands that additional efforts be made by all of us.

Policy mistakes may not always be avoidable. But they at least can be corrected. That, however, requires first looking more deeply into the root causes of the problem.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May made a pledge to the public on the 11th that the UK government will implement a 25 year plan, and will eradicate avoidable plastic waste pollution by 2042.

Beyond avoidable suffering and death, failure to report research also slows the pace of scientific discovery. It is widely acknowledged that the high current level of investment in pharmaceutical research is yielding too few substantive discoveries.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty related causes, nearly ten million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases like measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

Everyone involved in food production and consumption has suffered consumers (especially in developing countries) have been subjected to avoidable health risks, and food producers have placed themselves in legal jeopardy for selling products known to have design defects.

Recognition of the tragic and devastating nature of war and the common responsibility for past and present conflicts press us to question not only whether war can be legal and legitimate, but, above all, whether it is avoidable.

These losses are tragic, but they are also avoidable. They serve as a reminder that disaster preparedness is not an optional luxury it is a constant, intensive process that is necessary to save lives, protect infrastructure, and safeguard development.

But, while more than 200,000 people perished in the tsunami disaster, an equivalent number of children die each month of malaria in Africa, a disaster I call a silent tsunami. Africa s silent tsunami of malaria, however, is actually largely avoidable and controllable.

SAN FRANSISCO Large parts of the world have not enjoyed the remarkable global progress in health conditions that have taken place over the past century. Indeed, millions of deaths in impoverished nations are avoidable with prevention and treatment options that the rich world already uses.

Al Qaeda, while not conquered, no longer appears to be the threat that loomed so large in the wake of the 9 11 attacks. But the price paid in getting to this point, in the US and elsewhere, has been enormous and mostly avoidable.

The situation regarding chronic diseases like diabetes is very different. The epidemic happens silently over years or decades the danger is either not recognized or not considered avoidable and action is often seen as the responsibility of the individual (lifestyle modification) or health care system (pharmaceutical prescription), rather than the state.

First, the Financial Stability Board should help to reduce avoidable inconsistencies across countries by propagating a set of high level principles to which all member countries would be expected to conform when introducing new regulations. Indeed, the need for such principles should have been recognized in 2009, when the wave of re regulation began.

First, Kicillof attributed Argentina s rapid economic growth in the years between its 2001 debt default and the 2008 global financial crisis to a Keynesian reflation of domestic aggregate demand. Keynes made a tremendous intellectual contribution in showing that supply in a market economy does not necessarily create its own demand, and that demand shortfalls can cause avoidable recessions.

Ah yes, in a world in which ten million children die every year from avoidable, poverty related causes, and greenhouse gas emissions threaten to create hundreds of millions of climate refugees, we should be visiting Paris boutiques and feeling the clothes. If people were really concerned about defensible moral values, they wouldn t be buying designer clothes at all.

Handled with forbearance and firmness, relations with Russia should remain difficult but manageable. With NATO backing off, the European Union stepping in with its Eastern Partnership initiative to shift continuing competition in the post Soviet space onto a less antagonistic footing, and President Barack Obama demonstrating his willingness to assuage Russia s damaged pride, major confrontation should be avoidable.

The anti secession law s vague language and attempt at softened wording perhaps geared toward mollifying foreign critics paradoxically increases rather than decreases the likelihood that China and the United States could be unwittingly and unwillingly drawn into an avoidable military conflict. By failing to clearly delineate presumed or potential red lines for Taiwan, the law leaves open the possibility of substantial miscalculation or misinterpretation.

ROME The only thing to lament about the agreement reached by Iran and the P5 1 (the UN Security Council s five permanent members China, Britain, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany) in Vienna this month is that it was not signed and sealed a decade ago. In the years that it has taken for diplomatic sanity to prevail, the Middle East has endured myriad avoidable tensions and lost opportunities for security cooperation.