Countries in Focus

The Network focuses its efforts where it can provide most value-added to the work of its own members. The Network has identified four criteria to help prioritize countries for its support 2005-2010. These are:

•  Countries with high numbers of unprotected infants

•  Countries with low iodized salt coverage

•  Countries that export salt to other countries

•  Countries where salt supply comes from small scale producers

The Network's strategy is to use the four criteria to identify those countries where its support, especially at the national level can most make a difference.

Implementation of the strategy may be pursued by the Network collaboratively or may be implemented by one or more Network members taking the lead, in accordance with an agreement reached by all members of the Network Board.

The following are Network priority countries, together with the designated lead member organization for the Network are:

Bangladesh, UNICEF

Bolivia, ICCIDD

Egypt, ICCIDD

Ethiopia, UNICEF

Guatemala, MI

Haiti, UNICEF

India, UNICEF

Indonesia, UNICEF

Pakistan, MI

Philippines, Kiwanis

Vietnam, ICCIDD

Bangladesh

Partnership to end hidden hunger >

Policy of Universal Salt Iodization in Bangladesh:
Do Coastal People Benefit? >

Bolivia

Bolivia with a grain of salt >

Egypt

Iodine deficiency disorders among school children in upper Egypt:
an epidemiologic study >

Ethiopia

Iodized salt in Ethiopia >

Guatemala

Salt iodine variation within an extended Guatemalan community:
The failure of intuitive assumptions >  

India

Indian Coalition for control of iodine Deficiency Disorders >

IDD Newsletter India >

Iodine deficiency disorders in 15 districts of India >
(Indian J Pediatr 2004;71:25-8)

Indonesia

Intensified Iodine Deficiency Control in Indonesia:
Use of Salt Iodine Rapid Test for Program Management >

Community-Based Approach Makes Progress
Against IDD In Rural Bali >

Efficacy of different types of iodized oil preparation >
(Lancet 1998;351; 32:635-43)

Pakistan

Social Marketing Helps Eliminate Iodine Deficiency in Pakistan >

Key Messages for Doctors in Pakistan: The Role of General Practitioners / Family Physicians in Promoting Iodized Salt >

The Philippines

Legislation on iodized salt: An Act Promoting Salt Iodization Nationwide and for Related Purposes (ASIN LAW), The Philippines. Republic Act No.8172 > (PDF)