About 1,5 million people died in 2013 from TB, including 360,000 people who were HIV positive.
The world Health Oranization has revised up it's estimate of hOw many people have tuberculosis by almost 500,00.
In 2013 nine million people had developed TB around the world, up from 8.6 million in 2012, the WHO said.
However, the number of people dying from TB continued to decline, it added.
TB compaigners said that one of the biggest problem in tackling the deadly disease was gauging how many people were affected.
The WHO said its report underlined that a "staggering number of lives are being lost to a curabe disease and confirms that TB is the second biggest killer disease from a single infectious agent".
One of the main factors revising up the number of cases had been improved nationl data collection, the organisation added.
In the log-term, the mortality rate from TB had fallen dropping by 45 per cent since 1990, the WHO said had declined by about 1.5 per cent per year. But about three million people with TB had remaind undiagnosed in 2013, the WHO added.
One of the biggest issue facing organisation takling the disease was the number of undiagnosed cases, said tuberculosis charity TB Alert.
"The fact that three million people are missing out on treatment every year explains why there are still many avoidable deaths from tuberculosis," said TB Alert chief executive Mike Mandelbaum.
"By strengthening health system, especially in high-incidence countries, we can turn the tide of this global epidemic", and finally move into sight of eradicating thisd disease", he added.
The WHO said that insufficient funding was hampering effort to cobat the disease. An estimated $8bn (E5bn) was needed each year, bt there was an annual shortfall of $ 2bon, it said.
Tuberculosis that is resistant to drugs, which is harder to treat and cure, had accounted for 3.5 per cent of new cases in 2013, the WHO said.
Globally, five per cent of TB cases wer estimated to be drug resistant. But in some parts of the world, including Eastern Europe and Central Asia, there were "severe epidemics", the WHO sais.
For example, in Belarus, 35 per cent of new cases were drug resisitant.
Improved diagnostic tools and access mean that we are detecting and treating more cases," said Dr Karin Weyer, WHO coordinator for laboratories, diagnostics and drug resisitant.
"But the gap between detecting and actually getting people started on treatment is widening and we u8rgently need increased commitment and funding to test and treat every case," she added.
Extensively drug- resistant TB, which is even more difficult to treat than drug-resistant TB, had been reported in 100 countries, the WHO said.
source: BBC
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