The Canadian government and Inuit have launched a task force aimed at tackling the tuberculosis crisis across Inuit Nunangat. Among Inuit, the tuberculosis rate in 2015 was more than 270 times higher than the rate among Canadian-born non-Indigenous people. The task force was announced during a three-day conference on tuberculosis in Ottawa that was attended by Philpott. "They're all here talking about what would a TB-elimination framework look like," Obed told CBC News. And there isn't an acceptance that this is OK in this country," Obed told CBC News.

Source: CBC News October 08, 2017 12:56 UTC