SMC | Optimising Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in West and Central Africa

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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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Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Monitoring & Evaluation Toolkit

African Union Malaria Progress Report 2021

African Leaders Malaria Alliance

Video: Video: Driving SMC to protect kids from malaria

Redoubling efforts to sustain seasonal malaria chemoprevention.

Lancet Child Adolesc Health

Peer-reviewed article

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News

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Malaria Consortium expands seasonal malaria chemoprevention to South Sudan

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L’équipe de l’Université de Thiès conduit l’optimisation de la chimioprévention du paludisme saisonnier en Afrique

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Optimising Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention across Africa

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Resources

Coverage and quality of seasonal malaria chemoprevention supported by Malaria Consortium in 2021: Results from Burkina Faso, Chad, Mozambique, Nigeria, Togo, and Uganda

Malaria Consortium

Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention program: Philanthropy report 2021

Malaria Consortium

SMC Alliance 2022 Annual meeting presentations

The SMC Alliance

Effect of three years' seasonal malaria chemoprevention on molecular markers of resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine in Ouelessebougou, Mali.

Peer-reviewed article

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