Nunavik ends year with record number of TB cases, as officials promise funding announcement to come
By Samuel Wat ‘We need housing, infrastructure, and other social services to all work together in order to fix this’
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Screening clinics for tuberculosis opening up in Inukjuak, Que., amid rising cases across Nunavik
Special screening clinics opening in Inukjuak next week – other villages to follow Mass screening for tuberculosis will take place
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Nunavut making ‘steady progress’ toward zero tuberculosis cases by 2030, gov’t says
Health department says cases have been falling since 2023 As cases of tuberculosis continue to drop, Nunavut’s Health department says
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Nunavik TB action plan to be finalized in coming weeks, says health ministry
By Samuel Wat Earlier this year, Nunavik’s mayors tried to get tuberculosis outbreaks declared a public health emergency Quebec’s Ministry
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Nunavik health board proposes hiring private staff to help curb tuberculosis outbreak
By Félix Lebel Facing an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services in northern Quebec
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Q+A | Nunavik’s tuberculosis outbreaks result of colonial neglect: professor
By Samuel Wat Natasha MacDonald says Quebec isn’t treating TB in Nunavik with the same urgency as elsewhere in the
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Quebec ‘closely monitoring’ TB in Nunavik: minister, doctors call for resources
Region is on track for a 3rd year of record-high cases, says infectious disease lead Quebec’s health minister says the
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Nunavik’s 14 mayors call for public health emergency over tuberculosis cases
Region of northern Quebec facing the highest case count in recent history The mayors of 14 Inuit communities in northern
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World TB Day: Inuit org raises alarm on TB crisis as Canadian election begins
March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day. And with a federal election now underway in Canada, the country’s national Inuit organization
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Tuberculosis outbreaks in 3 Nunavut communities still ongoing years later
A tuberculosis outbreak was declared in Pangnirtung in 2021, Pond Inlet and Naujaat in 2023 An outbreak of tuberculosis in
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3 Nunavut communities still have ongoing tuberculosis outbreaks
Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet and Naujaat still fighting outbreak Three Nunavut communities still have ongoing tuberculosis outbreaks — one of which
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Service reductions at Yellowknife Public Health extended until further notice
Health department still responding to tuberculosis outbreak Service reductions at Yellowknife Public Health, triggered by a tuberculosis outbreak, will now
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N.W.T. declares tuberculosis outbreak in Yellowknife after 2 cases identified
Both cases linked, Public Health working on contact tracing The N.W.T.’s acting chief public health officer is declaring a tuberculosis
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Inuit leaders disappointed with budget’s lack of money for tuberculosis elimination
By Brett Forester · CBC News Budget pledges $1.1B for First Nations and Inuit health but offers nothing on TB elimination specifically
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Nunavut sets up mobile tuberculosis clinic in Naujaat as outbreak grows
3 have died since outbreak began, 21 diagnosed with active TB Nunavut’s Health department has opened a community-wide mobile testing clinic
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