| Office: | Member of the Parliament |
| Term Start: | 5 April 1966 |
| Term End: | 23 April 1979 |
| Birth Name: | Alli Ester Vaittinen-Kuikka |
| Birth Date: | 8 May 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Impilahti |
| Death Place: | Joensuu, Finland |
| Party: | National Coalition Party |
Alli Vaittinen-Kuikka (1918–2006) was a Finnish nurse, midwife and conservative politician. She was a member of the Parliament between 1966 and 1979 representing the National Coalition Party. She is known for her activities against tapeworm in Finland.
Vaittinen-Kuikka was born in Impilahti on 8 May 1918.[1] She was trained as a midwife and graduated from the Midwifery College in Helsinki in 1942.[2] She obtained a degree in nursing from the Nursing College in 1947.[2]
She served as the director of the preparatory school of the Midwifery College in the 1940s. She was the founder of the Nokia Communicable Disease Hospital and worked as a head nurse. In the 1950s she worked as the district health nurse of the Finnish Red Cross and started her activities in Joensuu to eradicate the tapeworm.[2] She continued these activities as a scientific assistant at the pharmaceutical company Medica in the 1960s.[2] [3]
On 5 April 1966, Vaittinen-Kuikka was elected as a deputy for the National Coalition Party from the North Karelia constituency and served in the Parliament until 23 April 1979.[4] During her term she advocated the limitation on the pornographic publications, but her proposals were not accepted by the Parliament.[3] She also disapproved of the state-sponsored institutional day care of children citing its negative effects on mental health.[5]
After retiring from politics she continued to deal with scientific studies.[3] She died in 2006 in Joensuu at the age of 88.[4] [3] She donated her inheritance to the city council of Joensuu.[6]