ountries are expected to have instituted
programs for epidemiological surveillance and the evaluation of
salt.  The target of eliminating iodine-deficiency disorders in the
Region by the year 2000, proposed in September 1991 during the XXXV
Meeting of the Directing Council of PAHO, will be promoted through
the Expanded Program for the Control of Iodine-deficiency Disorders
in Latin America.  This effort will involve the provision of
sustained support to the national control programs and the
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