UBC study shows increased risk of infectious disease in children of residential school survivors
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 10:42
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time ever, research has revealed a statistical connection between residential schools and infectious disease rates. New findings from a University of British Columbia study on at-risk Aboriginal young people in British Columbia point to alarming patterns of historical trauma, injection drug use and Hepatitis C (HCV) infection.