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Nunavut declares tuberculosis outbreak in Pond Inlet

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 15:44
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Nunavut’s chief public health officer has declared an outbreak of tuberculosis in Pond Inlet. Five people in the north Baffin

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Privacy commissioner in Nunavut, Canada says government should release more data on tuberculosis

Julia Peterson, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 11:34
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Nunavut’s privacy commissioner wants to see more transparency from the territorial government when it comes to tuberculosis cases. Nunavut has

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Coronavirus hurting Alaska attempt to reduce tuberculosis

The Associated Press
Posted: Monday, July 13, 2020 at 16:53
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Alaska is on track to repeat last year’s mark of the U.S.’s highest rate of tuberculosis infections, health officials said.

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COVID-19 shouldn’t overshadow ongoing fight against TB, Canadian Inuit leaders say

Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 13, 2020 at 10:21
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Canada’s Inuit were already grappling with a much deadlier respiratory disease: tuberculosis. The TB rate

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Eliminating tuberculosis among Canada’s Inuit stalled due to lack of funding

Kieran Oudshoorn, CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 20, 2020 at 10:00
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Nearly two years after the federal government committed to eliminating tuberculosis among Inuit by 2030, progress is stalled and the

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Canadian government eyes ‘meaningful resolution’ to Indian hospitals class action lawsuit

Jorge Barrera, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at 09:48
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The Canadian government has consented to the certification of a proposed $1.1 billion class action lawsuit filed over Indian hospitals

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Inuit describe ‘bittersweet’ experience at burial sites of lost loved ones in Southern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 14:02 — Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2019 at 11:44
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Inuit families travel to Southern Canada to discover their relatives are in unmarked graves. For Simon Nattaq, it was a

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TB rates remain high in Nunavut, Canada despite community testing

Kieran Oudshoorn, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 11:50
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Tuberculosis rates in Nunavut (Canadian eastern Arctic) remain high despite the federal government spending millions of dollars on screening clinics

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Tuberculosis: Inuk man identifies mother’s burial site in southern Canada, 61 years later

CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 22, 2019 at 15:00
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Jack Anawak has waited more than 60 years to know where his mother is buried. Anawak, a well-known figure in

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Longread – How an Inuit community in Atlantic Canada fought a tuberculosis outbreak

Ossie Michelin, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 14:39 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 14:41
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Gussie Bennett, a popular and outgoing teenager in Nain, Newfoundland, used to run down to the community rink every day

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Canada’s PM apologizes to Inuit for ‘colonial’ mistreatment of tuberculosis patients

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 8, 2019 at 13:55 — Last Updated: Friday, March 8, 2019 at 15:30
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today apologized in Iqaluit, Nunavut for the federal policy on tuberculosis in the mid-20th century,

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Why are the tuberculosis rates in the Canadian Arctic 290 times those in the rest of the country?

Stephanie Hogan, CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 8, 2019 at 12:27 — Last Updated: Friday, March 8, 2019 at 13:30
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today apologized in Iqaluit, Nunavut for the way the Canadian government treated Inuit patients with tuberculosis

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Canadian Inuit organization releases strategy to eliminate TB by 2030

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, December 10, 2018 at 15:32
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Canada’s national Inuit organization released Monday its strategy to eliminate by 2030 the “staggeringly high rates” of tuberculosis (TB) among

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Faster treatment for latent tuberculosis coming to Northern Canadian territory

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 2, 2018 at 13:00 — Last Updated: Friday, November 2, 2018 at 13:03
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A drug that can cut the amount of time it takes to treat latent tuberculosis, or TB, down to just

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Canada to apologize for treatment of Inuit with tuberculosis in mid-20th century

CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10:51 — Last Updated: Friday, October 26, 2018 at 16:25
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The federal government is poised to apologize for how it treated Inuit who were plucked from their communities across the

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