First Lady of Mongolia Ms. Kh.Bolormaa has attended a high-level meeting entitled “Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases” held at UN Headquarters, in New York City.

Within the meeting, as a leader of the “Trust” National Fund for Cancer-free Mongolia Ms.Bolormaa held meetings with several experts of some countries with aims to intensify activities to support combating cancers. For example,Ms. Bolormaa discussed matters on conducting vaccinations against cancer for women in Mongolia, with Ms. Laura Efros, Director of the U.S Vaccine Public Policy; and Joan Benson,Executive Director.
Furthermore, Ms. Bolormaa proposed that the U.S Merck Company supply vaccines to Mongolia at a discounted price.

Present at these meetings were S.Lambaa, Minister of Health; A.Monkhtaivan, Director of the health project at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC); and E.Erdene, Executive Director of the national fund.

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