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ITK divvies up $27M to fight tuberculosis

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ITK divvies up $27M to fight tuberculosis
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Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami has decided how it will allocate $27 million earmarked for tuberculosis eradication across Inuit Nunangat.
The money, originally announced in February, is meant to help fulfill the federal government’s promise to eradicate tuberculosis by 2030.
Inuit in Canada see disproportionately high rates of tuberculosis. While rates in Canada are some of the lowest in the world, at 6.1 cases per 100,000 people, the rates of the disease among Inuit in Canada is 186.9 cases per

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