Inuit, Ottawa launch task force to fight tuberculosis in the North

The federal government and Inuit have launched a task force to examine the tuberculosis crisis across Inuit Nunangat - communities located in the four Inuit regions in northern coastal Labrador, northern Quebec, the territory of Nunavut and a region of the Northwest Territories. . Among Inuit, the tuberculosis rate in 2015 was more than 270 times higher than that of Canadian-born non-Indigenous people.

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