World Health (WHO) Organization Award

In April 2016, the Flagstaff International Relief Effort (FIRE) was honored to be selected as one of five organizations to be recognized by the WHO (World Health Organization) and EASL (European Association for Study of the Liver) for innovative hepatitis screening programs. 

FIRE's project will be included in the first edition of WHO's "Hepatitis Screening Guidelines." Meredith Potts, FIRE's Executive Director, also presented this project at EASL's annual International Liver Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

To date, FIRE has screened 3,500 rural Mongolians through this program. A short video from FIRE's 2015 project in Khovsgol province may be viewed here.

For more information about this project, please visit FIRE's Hepatitis and Cancer Screening webpage.

For more information about the award, please visit the WHO website.

To learn more about the International Liver Congress, please visit the EASL website.

Mongolian Finance Discussion

In May 2016, the Flagstaff International Relief Effort (FIRE) joined the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and many government Ministries and agencies in Mongolia for a discussion about innovative financing ideas for elimination of viral hepatitis. 

This was the first discussion of its kind anywhere in the world. It was a terrific step in making Mongolia the first country to be hepatitis free. 

To learn more about the event, please visit the World Hepatitis Alliance website.