• Consult a travel clinic; visiting this site is the first step.
• Consider appropriate vaccinations as per your itinerary/requirements.
• Consider anti-malarials as per your risk profile. Children under the age of 6 should ideally not enter these areas. The same applies to pregnant females.
• Update your childhood vaccinations.
• Allow for enough chronic medication for your trip, remember  to have prescriptions with you as necessary.
• Have a general check- up especially if you suffer from chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease.
• Remember to have your teeth checked especially if you are going to be relocating abroad for a protracted time.
• Travel insurance as a must.
• Consider using a first aid kit for common ailments while abroad.
• Ensure that all your travel and diplomatic requirements are up to date and correct eg. Visas, Medicals , Xrays etc.
• Please consider the use of face masks, face shields and hand sanitisers as appropriate for air travel and for your destination requirements. Keep these items on you as well as having spare ones in your luggage

• Avoid tap water. Water must be bottled or pre-boiled or pre-chlorinated ( cholera is very sensitive to chlorine).
• Avoid salads, ice-creams, ice cubes, unpasteurised milk.
• Food must be thoroughly cooked. Avoid uncooked fish ,meat etc.
• Rinsing of mouth after brushing of teeth with bottled water only.
• Avoid eating at informal venders.
• Most developing countries have poor water purification and sanitation management thus diseases like Hepatitis A, typhoid, polio, shigella remain a constant threat and challenge.
• Use mosquitoe repellants and always sleep under a bed net ( preferably  insecticide treated) when travelling into  malaria areas.
• Be aware of any bites as it is not only mosquitoes that transmit disease.
• Do not approach animals, domestic or wild as rabies is always a potential threat (this includes bats).
• Personal security and responsible behaviour helps to minimise health risk. Always enquire about the civil safety of the area you are about to visit  and the quality of the county’s infrastructure (motor vehicle accidents are a leading cause of death and serious injury amongst travellers). Monitor areas of unrest before you depart especially if you are travelling to multiple destinations ( this should include countries in transit).
• Practise safe sex at all times.
• Please consider the use of face masks, face shields and hand sanitisers as appropriate for air travel and for your destination requirements. Keep these items on you as well as having spare ones in your luggage

Be watchful of any symptoms like fever, flu-like illness, rashes , unexplained bruising, unexplained bleeding,  diarrhoea.

• Continue with your anti-malarials as per prescription where  applicable.
• Consider booster vaccinations  as per your previous pre-travel consultation and remember to take your vaccination card with you.