Health education and disease prevention programme in an underdeveloped area Cusichaca project Peru, 1979.

Introduction The Cusichaca Project is a five-year Archaeological Project, 1979 being its second year, which, under the Directorship of Dr Ann Kendall, goes out to an area in the Andean highlands in Peru 90 km north-west of Cusco, for four months every summer. The project team consists of 35 civilians, mostly archaeologists and archaeological volunteers, two thirds British and one third Peruvian, together with a botanist and anthropologist. This was supported by a lO-man British Army team in 1979 consisting of a Camp administrator, second in command, chef, two Royal Engineers surveyors, two medical orderlies, photographer, general handyman and a doctor. This was the first time a doctor had accompanied the project. The aims of the project were twofold: (i) Archaeological and botanical research; (ii) Rehabilitation.