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Global health

Optimizing seasonal malaria chemoprevention

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

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Video: Driving SMC to protect children in the Sahel

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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

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09 Nov 2021

Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Monitoring & Evaluation Toolkit

l'Alliance CPS
06 Feb 2022

African Union Malaria Progress Report 2021

African Leaders Malaria Alliance

Video: Video: Driving SMC to protect kids from malaria

21 Jan 2022

Redoubling efforts to sustain seasonal malaria chemoprevention.

Lancet Child Adolesc Health
Peer-reviewed article
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Latest Newsletters

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News

SMC Alliance response to the World Malaria Report 2022

09 Dec 2022
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Protecting Children: 10 Years of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention

16 Jun 2022
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Malaria Consortium expands seasonal malaria chemoprevention to South Sudan

25 Apr 2022
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Resources

13 Aug 2022

Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Implementation: Effect on Malaria Incidence and Immunity in a Context of Expansion of <i>P. falciparum</i> Resistant Genotypes with Potential Reduction of the Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Infect Drug Resist
Peer-reviewed article
11 Aug 2022

Spatiotemporal spread of Plasmodium falciparum mutations for resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine across Africa, 1990-2020.

PLoS Comput Biol
Peer-reviewed article
04 Aug 2022

Sub-national tailoring of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Mali based on malaria surveillance and rainfall data.

Parasit Vectors
Peer-reviewed article
03 Aug 2022

Safety and effectiveness of delivering mass drug administration for helminths through the seasonal malaria chemoprevention platform among Senegalese children: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Trials
Peer-reviewed article
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