COVID 19 impact on iodine programs
May 2020
IDD Newsletter
In this issue:
- COVID-19 series
- Fortification of staple foods is a critical weapon in the fight against COVID-19
- COVID-19 lockdown and two wet spells bring salt farmers misery in Andhra Pradesh, India
- Haitian iodized salt program weathers the COVID-19 storm
- Ekaterina Troshina, IGN national coordinators for Russia, on the frontlines against COVID-19
- Iodized salt coverage and COVID-19 in MENA/EMR
- Estimating the global benefits of salt iodization to correct IDD
- Low iodine intakes in Israeli pregnant women
- Global Scorecard of iodine nutrition in 2020: optimal iodine intake in 131 countries
- Iodized salt in processed foods in Armenia
- Izzeldin Huseein, IGN Regional Coordinator in the Middle East and North Africa
- Festo Kavishe, IGN Regional Coordinator for Eastern and Southern Africa
- Two decades of sustained salt iodization in Sri Lanka
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