Iodized salt advances in Central Asia |
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More than 100 participants from five Central Asian countries met in Turkmenistan to plan how to accelerate progress, according to both ReliefWeb and IRIN.
The ReliefWeb article summarizes:
"Iodine deficiency disorder has been eliminated in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, and the other countries are close to achieving the goal," Shahnaz Kianian-Firouzgar, deputy UNICEF regional director for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), said.
Turkmenistan achieved universal salt iodisation in 2004, the first CIS country and the fourth in the world to have done so in accordance with generally accepted international standards.
Kazakhstan has followed suit and 92 percent of the Kazakh population use adequately iodised salt. A national system for regular surveillance of adequate and sufficient food-grade iodised salt supplies to the highest at-risk group (pregnant women) has been established, according to UNICEF.
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