The second meeting of The Expert Group -- Reviewing Advances and Planning a Second Phase -- took place in Washington, DC the 27-28th of October 2011. Two years prior, in September 2009, PAHO Director Dr. Mirta Roses Periago launched the regional initiative - CVD Prevention through Dietary Salt Reduction - by convening an Expert Group (EG) with a 24-month mandate. Now, as the EG has concluded its first phase of work and submits its final report, it turns to its collective expertise and experience toward developing a plan for a second phase of activity.

The objectives of the second meeting were to: 

(1) take stock of the advances and challenges, 

(2) discuss lessons learned and critical issues, and 

(3) move forward through defining opportunities and plan to further advance dietary salt reduction in the Region for 2012-2014.

• Agenda
• List of Participants
• Final Report

Presentations 

• WHO/PAHO Regional Expert Group for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Through Population-wide Dietary Salt Reduction: Review of Achievements
  
• “Menos SAL, Más VIDA” Initiative Experience in Argentina
• National Strategy for Reducing Sodium Consumption in Brazil
• Strategy to Reduce Sodium/Salt Intake in Chile
• Costa Rica Progress and Challenges to Reduce Salt Reduction
• Salt Intake in Barbados
• Sodium Reduction in the US: Advances and Challenges
• Healthy Caribbean Coalition Salt Reduction Initiatives
• Advances and Challenges in Paraguay
  
• Pan American Forum for Action on Chronic Diseases: Supporting the Implementation of the Regional Strategy for Prevention & Control of NCDs
• Health Impact and Monetary Costs of Dietary Salt Reduction Policies: The CHD Policy Model
• Targets Setting Model