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By Mr. Mihir R. Bhatt March 12, the International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths (IAD4AD), challenges us to confront a painful reality: many deaths we accept as “normal” consequences of heat are neither sudden nor inevitable. Extreme heat is one…

By Professor Alois Hirschmugl  Designing and Implementing Effective Disaster Response Training Over the past decade, D.M.A.T. Consulting KG has organised a wide range of disaster response exercises worldwide, including in Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ghana, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and…

By Dr. Madhulika Sahoo It was last year when I visited Burujhari village in the Ganjam district of Odisha. I visited the case station and interacted with the women ambassadors. The women who took responsibility for mitigating snakebite deaths in…

By Dr Maryam Samaila Mohammed Every year, preventable deaths claim the lives of hundreds of thousands of women and girls from maternal complications to climate-related health crises (WHO, 2025). These deaths are not inevitable. They are the result of structural…

By Sadia Afrin Sayfa Negaban A day more than a celebration; it is a recognition of strength, resilience, and the endless possibilities women create. The 8th of March is a day when the world pauses to celebrate International Women’s Day.…

By Prof. Anil Gupta*; and Mr. Vishal Pathak** Loss and damage from climate change are often discussed in terms of economic costs, infrastructure damage, and displacement. Yet one of the gravest and most irreversible forms of loss remains under-recognised: avoidable…

By Mr. Mohammad Asad Tahir Jappa As the world faces unprecedented challenges from the climate crisis, deteriorating biodiversity, and the tolling of alarm bells over energy security, the crying need for climate leadership is in the spotlight. While we have…

By Mr. Alexander Skinner and Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett Climate change isn’t just about rising seas and carbon emissions—it’s a health crisis, especially for women of reproductive age in disaster-prone regions. When floods, cyclones, or heatwaves strike, access to essential reproductive…

By Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita Photo credits: The Japan Times In Japan, disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures and climate change policies have, for many years, been promoted as separate efforts. In terms of governmental responsibilities, DRR has mainly been handled by…

 By Master Arkoneil Ghosh and Ms. Prarthona Datta Floods, droughts, and storms are no longer headlines; they are daily realities for millions of children globally. When disaster strikes, homes are swept away, schools become shelters, and families must begin again…

Lightning is  an awe-inspiring, natural but fascinating phenomenon since times immemorial. But  in recent times, it  has shown sharp increase in its frequency, severity, intensity and dimensions in many parts of the world, especially in tropical and developing countries; and…

Every year, an estimated 5.4 million people worldwide are bitten by snakes, resulting in 1.8 to 2.7 million cases of envenoming (WHO, 2023). Of these, between 81,410 and 137,880 people die, and approximately three times as many suffer amputations or…

Today we celebrate snake’s unique role in our ecosystem: Most snakes are not aggressive and non-venomous, and often bite in self-defence, when threatened or provoked; trying to kill them will expose you to a higher risk of bite. Photo with…

By Giulia Cristiana According to Tearfund, we are losing one person to plastic pollution every 30 seconds. That is roughly one million people a year. Since its inception in 1907, plastic has quickly become one of the most produced, consumed,…

By Maryam Mohammed Samaila At the Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN), we believe that accelerating action means moving beyond words to transformative change. This International Women’s Day (IWD), we stand in solidarity with global efforts to break barriers, drive inclusion, and…

By Tahira Khan In District Chiniot, Pakistan, agricultural well falls have been a persistent yet preventable cause of injuries and fatalities among farmers and livestock, with 286 incidents reported from 2013 to 2023. Previously, no protective measures were in place,…

By Chloe Vasquez Globally, antivenom markets are broken and unreliable, plagued by sky-high prices, severe shortages and the constant drop-out of producers from the market. In India, however, antivenoms are cheap and widely available. So, how is India producing so…