 Seychelles – Containment of Parasitic Infections
The effective control of serious parasitic infections (especially the success of the project to fight schisotsomiasis on Pemba/Tanzania) was the decisive reason for why the WHO offered the GPHF the cooperation in a comparable project in 1992: The control of serious parasitic infections on the Seychelles.
 The Archipelago in the Indian Ocean is well known as a tourist site. However, according to the WHO up to 60 percent of the approx. 70,000 islanders suffer from infectious diseases caused by parasites. Here, too, the disease particularly affects children.
Within the three-years-program, comparable to the former project on Pemba, an improvement of diagnosis and treatment facilities as well as a decisive decline in the numbers of infections were achieved. Main target groups were schoolchildren, infants and pregnant women.
The WHO attributes a model character to the Seychelles project of the GPHF for other countries in the Indian Ocean.
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