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More than 1.2 million adolescents across the world die annually of mainly preventable causes including road traffic injuries, lower respiratory infections and suicide, the World Health Organisation reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

With more than two-thirds of recorded adolescent deaths in 2015 taking place in low and middle-income countries in Africa and south-east Asia, WHO said.<\/p>\n

It said that most of the fatalities could be avoided by improving health services, education and social support.<\/p>\n

According to statistics, road injuries were the top global cause of deaths for all adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years old, with some 115,000 such cases documented in 2015.<\/p>\n

This was followed by deaths resulting from lower respiratory infections (72,655), self-harm (67,149), diarrhoeal diseases (63,575) and drowning (57,125).<\/p>

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WHO warned, however, that both regional and gender-based disparities exist.<\/p>\n

In low and middle-income African countries, communicable diseases including HIV\/AIDS, lower respiratory infections, meningitis, and diarrhoea diseases are bigger killers than road-related injuries.<\/p>\n

Similarly, while the leading causes of death for adolescent males are road traffic injuries, interpersonal violence and drowning, the top three causes of death for females are lower respiratory infections, self-harm and diarrhoea diseases.<\/p>\n

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