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.

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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Resources

Agent-based simulation of seasonal malaria chemoprevention strategy in Southern Tanzania: comparing dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine with or without primaquine

Malaria Journal

Peer-reviewed article

Malaria: a review on its current epidemiological status and management strategies

Malaria Journal

Peer-reviewed article

Indirect benefits of seasonal malaria chemoprevention for non-malarial pediatric infections and routine antibiotic use in real-world programmatic settings: a pre-post study using positive and negative controls

BMC Infectious Diseases

Peer-reviewed article

Effectiveness of antenatal care delivery of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in the context of an integrated strategy with seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Mali and Burkina Faso

BMJ Global Health

Peer-reviewed article

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