Sri Lanka has created a successful salt iodization program that has reduced goiter incidence from 20.9% in 1995 to just 3.8% ten years later. That measure does not capture the full devastation of IDD, however, as another article in the February IDD Newsletter makes clear. Other stories include progress in Malaysia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Africa, use of temporary iodine supplementation strategies in areas where universal salt iodization has been hard to launch and the 2010 country-by-country IDD progress report, The Global IDD Scorecard.