SMC | Optimising Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in West and Central Africa

8th SMC Alliance Annual Review: Key takeaways

World Malaria Day 2025

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Global health

Optimizing seasonal malaria chemoprevention

Photo: Toby Madden / MMV

Photo: Toby Madden / MMV

SMC is to be implemented in areas where malaria is highly seasonal, and transmission is intense.

Photo: Toby Madden / MMV

Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) is the intermittent administration of full treatment of an anti-malarial medicine during the malaria season to prevent malarial illness.

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Featured Resources

SMC Alliance Annual Meeting Report 2025

SMC Alliance Learnings Report April 2025

SMC Alliance 2025 Annual Meeting (Lomé) Presentations

WHO guidelines for malaria, 30 November 2024

World Health Organization

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News

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Resources

Effect of malaria chemoprevention for school-age children across transmission archetypes: a modelling study

The Lancet Global Health

Peer-reviewed article

Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Coverage in Hard-to-reach Populations in Turkana, Northern Kenya

Peer-reviewed article

Trends in uncomplicated and severe malaria following seasonal malaria chemoprevention administration in Nouna, Burkina Faso: a quasi-experimental pre-post study

Elisabeth A Gebreegziabher, Mamadou Ouattara, Mamadou Bountogo, Boubacar Coulibaly, Valentin Boudo, Thierry Ouedraogo, Elodie Lebas, Huiyu Hu, David V Glidden, Benjamin F Arnold, Thomas M Lietman, Ali Sié, Catherine E Oldenburg

Peer-reviewed article

Global medium-term research priority setting for seasonal malaria chemoprevention: results from an eDelphi study

BMJ Global Health

Peer-reviewed article

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