SMC | Optimising Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in West and Central Africa

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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.

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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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Latest Newsletters

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News

SMC Alliance response to the World Malaria Report 2022

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Protecting Children: 10 Years of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention

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Malaria Consortium expands seasonal malaria chemoprevention to South Sudan

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Resources

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

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

PLoS Comput Biol

Peer-reviewed article

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

Parasit Vectors

Peer-reviewed article

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.

Peer-reviewed article

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