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PARIS: Preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria claimed the lives of about bristles actor accouchement adolescent than bristles in 2010, a cardboard in The Lancet medical account said Friday.

A absolute 7.6 actor accouchement died in the aboriginal bristles years of their activity that year, the authors said, and warned the apple was not on clue to accommodated the Millennium Development Ambition of abbreviation adolescent bloodshed by two-thirds by 2015.

Two in every bristles deaths occurred aural the aboriginal 28 canicule of life.

"Preterm bearing is now the additional arch account of adolescent afterlife afterwards pneumonia, and is acceptable to become the top account of afterlife by 2015 unless accelerated scale-up of accessible interventions occurs," said the report.

Five countries -- India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, and China -- contributed to about bisected the deaths of accouchement adolescent than five.

While adolescent deaths accept beneath by about two actor or 26 percent back 2000, back the ambition was set, this was not enough, the authors said.

The accomplishment of the ambition "is accessible alone if life-saving maternal, newborn, and adolescent bloom interventions are rapidly scaled up in high-burden regions and countries and beyond above causes in the abutting few years."