The problem of tuberculosis has been warned about by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday pertaining especially to the Western Pacific Region and that if proper financial and technical support not provided, control over the disease may be lost.

The region is facing concerning threats to its TB control programs as the epidemic generally attacks marginalised people who don't have much access to health care. Moreover, the HIV poses a major threat as it can reverse the positive effects achieved by the efforts to control TB.

WHO has advised that countries need to work hard on making strong the initial cases of detection of the disease and also on the universal access to proper TB services.

According to WHO, over 1.3 million patients in the Western Pacific Region are known to get affected by TB every year and almost 90 percent of them are properly remedied.

Due to the successful distribution of quality TB services in the region, the number of affected TB patients came down from 3.6 million in 2000 to 2 million in 2008. Also the total number of patients dying each year is decreasing.