À¦°óSMÉçÇø News - World TB Day /channels/news_feeds/all/term/World%20TB%20Day/rss en Four Burning Questions for Madhukar Pai & Dick Menzies on World TB Day /channels/channels/news/four-burning-questions-madhukar-pai-dick-menzies-world-tb-day-295630 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>March 24<sup>th</sup> is World TB Day. Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient disease that killed humans as far back as 600 BC. Sadly, even in 2019, it is the leading infectious killer of humanity.</p> <p>In Canada, the TB rate among the Inuit is about 280 times higher than that of the Canadian-born non-Indigenous. Thankfully, the Canadian government has pledged to end the TB epidemic in the Inuit Nunangat by 2030. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Trudeau apologized for the various injustices Inuit people with TB faced in the past.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/2019-03-21-menzies-pai_693x509.jpg?itok=sII9UqwY" width="160" height="118" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">21 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2019</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:43:36 +0000 webfull 147577 at /channels