Contemporary military operations involving Polish Military Contingents (PMC) are usually carried out in hard environmental conditions, which favor bringing home pathogens of infectious and parasitic diseases. This fact has been confirmed by a number of studies conducted by the Military Institute of Medicine (MIM) between 2010 and 2014 as a part of the program for prevention of intestinal parasitic infections among participants in military operations, local population studies in areas of the PMC deployment in Afghanistan, Central African Republic and Kosovo, carried out between 2011 and 2016, and parasitological tests performed in soldiers from the PMCs deployed to Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia and Kuwait in 2015 and 2017. Since 2010, the Military Institute of Medicine has been the only research center continuously involved in the epidemiological surveillance and elimination of intestinal parasitic infections among military personnel serving overseas. Out of concern for the continuity of the above‑mentioned surveillance and for further efficient elimination of intestinal parasitic infections among Polish soldiers, the MIM prepared a draft program for prevention of intestinal parasitic infections for the coming years, which was sent to the Department of the Military Health Service for consecutive agreements.