The collapse of the Former Soviet Union undermined salt iodization throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It has taken years to regain lost ground. Further background can be obtained from these articles in IDD Newsletter.
IDD in the Former USSR
Update on IDD in the Former USSR
Mongolia Launches Program Against IDD: The National Advocacy Meeting
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Overview of IDD Status
Bread Iodization for Iodine Deficient Regions of Russia and Other Newly Independent States
Overcoming Iodine Deficiency in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Severe Iodine Deficiency in Tuva Republic, Russia
Regional Report: August 1999
Iodine Deficiency's Impact on Human Development in Siberia
Goiter Prevalence and Urinary Iodine Excretion in Belarus: Children Born Before and After the Chernobyl Accident
Regional Report: August 2000
Recent Information on IDD in Eastern Europe
Kazakhstan Progresses Towards IDD Elimination
Worth the Salt: Fighting Iodine Deficiency in Azerbaijan
IDD in Eastern Europe/Central Asia
The Kazakhstan Project for IDD Elimination
Eliminating Iodine Deficiency in Central Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic States
JFPR9005 Improving Nutrition of Poor Mothers and Children in Asian Countries in Transition
Iodized Salt for Bright School Children Turkmenistan Keeps Promise to Eliminate Iodine Deficiency
Iodine Deficiency Disorders in the Urban Areas of Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The 2003 IDD Status Research in Russia: Using Thyromobil
Regional Report: 2004
Salt Producers' Meeting for Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic States
