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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Africa-Europe partnership launches project to optimize malaria vaccine implementation and uptake

The OPT-SMC project comes to a successful end

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Resources

Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in northern Mozambique: a cost-effectiveness analysis

Malaria Journal

Peer-reviewed article

SMC Alliance Annual Meeting Report 2025

Coverage and quality of seasonal malaria chemoprevention supported by Malaria Consortium in 2024

Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention: Philanthropy report 2024 by Malaria Consortium

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