The tuberculosis crisis in Canada’s North is a social justice issue

In addition to the work addressing the housing crisis and food insecurity, intergenerational trauma caused by TB sanatoriums must be acknowledged as a social determinant of health in Nunavut.

Health Minister Mark Holland and Health Canada should adopt promising health-care technology from other countries that currently don’t exist in Canada, and implement a national TB surveillance program, writes Rachel Kiddell-Monroe.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY RACHEL KIDDELL-MONROE

December 6, 2023

Three hundred times. That is how much higher the rate of tuberculosis (TB) is among Inuit compared to non-Indigenous people who are born in Canada.

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