{"id":2430,"date":"2014-07-18T18:09:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T23:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2014-07-18T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T23:09:48","slug":"community-based-approach-helps-fight-tb-in-nunavut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/community-based-approach-helps-fight-tb-in-nunavut\/","title":{"rendered":"Community-based approach helps fight TB in Nunavut<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A community-based approach to TB awareness and screening in Nunavut has resulted in an increase in detection and treatment.\u00a0<\/span>Nunavut is the only area of Canada where TB rates are increasing; in 2010 it was 60 times higher than the national rate.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">An awareness and door-to-door screening campaign called Taima TB &#8211; Taima is Inuktitut for \u201cstop\u201d &#8211; resulted in the detected of 42 previously unidentified cases of latent TB and a 33% increase in completion of treatment.<\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W8RDR_gZ4Ac&amp;list=UU3g40x8IlzCzCL_d8c5XhRQ\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> to see videos from the campaign.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0100975\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal <em>PLoS ONE<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 17, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gonzalo Alvarez, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute &amp;\u00a0University of Ottawa, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A community-based approach to TB awareness and screening in Nunavut has resulted in an increase in detection and treatment.\u00a0Nunavut is the only area of Canada where TB rates are increasing; in 2010 it was 60 times higher than the national rate. An awareness and door-to-door screening campaign called Taima TB &#8211; Taima is Inuktitut for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[869,51,53,1965,50,476],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-canada-en","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Dc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}