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The chair of the committee (GGA) was appointed by the editor of the Canadian TB Standards to generate a position statement on TB prevention and care among Indigenous Peoples of Canada. The chair asked each of the three major Canadian Indigenous groups to appoint representatives to the writing committee. The committee first began by reaching a consensus on the purpose of the chapter, followed by reaching a consensus on an outline. Each Indigenous organization representative then produced their section according to the outline. A TB expert physician supported each Indigenous organization representative in drafting the document. The role of the TB expert physicians was to provide clinical content expertise and to support the arguments made by the Indigenous representatives, to ensure the voices of these representatives were central to the document. In addition, as much as possible, committee members were encouraged to add the voices of Indigenous Peoples to this document so that these voices could directly speak to health workers to help educate them. To this end, the committee members did a scoping review of the literature²² to support the concepts put forward by Indigenous partners. A search for published and unpublished articles (grey literature) and video testimonials by Indigenous Peoples to highlight the oral traditions used to convey history common to all three groups was also undertaken.²³

It is important to note that, although the 3 Indigenous groups recognized by the Constitution of Canada commonly experience the process of colonization and have other areas of overlap, their cultures are distinct. As a result, while their experiences with TB are similar in some ways, there are important differences reflected in the three population-specific sub-sections of this chapter.

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