Peggy Vidot

Ms. Vidot is the chairperson of the National Aids Council in Seychelles and was a proponent of switching HIV treatment tasks from doctors to nurses and midwives to better combat the disease in Africa. In order to enable the switching, she initiated the African Health Profession Regulatory Collaborative (ARC) which works across 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to facilitate nurse- and midwife-led HIV care for pregnant women and children; improve the quality of nursing practice; and enhance national nursing policy and regulation. In 2003, she was appointed as Health Advisor for the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, where she was responsible for developing and implementing projects and activities to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of Commonwealth member countries. Upon her return to Seychelles in 2012, she was appointed Special Advisor to the Minister for Health and served until 2016. In 2017, she was appointed Chair of the National AIDS Council of Seychelles and in 2019 she served as Chair of the Seychelles Women Trust Fund. She was appointed Minister of Health in November 2020. Ms. Vidot holds a Master’s in Management of Health Services Management from Manchester University. She is also a State Registered Midwife from Luton and Dunstable School of Midwifery, Luton and State Registered Nurse from the Bath School of Nursing in the UK.