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Seasonal vaccination against malaria: a potential use for an imperfect malaria vaccine [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2017
In many parts of the African Sahel and sub-Sahel, where malaria remains a major cause of mortality and morbidity, transmission of the infection is highly seasonal.
Brian Greenwood, Alassane Dicko, Issaka Sagara, Issaka Zongo, Halidou Tinto, Matthew Cairns, Irene Kuepfer, Paul Milligan, Jean-Bosco Ouedraogo, Ogobara Doumbo, Daniel Chandramohan   +10 more
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Assessing the Acceptability and Feasibility of Five Cycles of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Côte d’Ivoire [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a strategy recommended by the World Health Organization for children aged 3–59 months in the Sahel and sub-Sahel regions where malaria transmission is seasonal.
Orphée Kangah, Issaka Zongo, Alassane Haro, William Yavo   +3 more
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Trends in uncomplicated and severe malaria following seasonal malaria chemoprevention administration in Nouna, Burkina Faso: a quasi-experimental pre-post study [PDF]

Malaria Journal
Background While Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) has been adopted as a malaria control strategy in regions with seasonal transmission, continued monitoring and evaluation of its effectiveness across diverse ecological, epidemiological, and ...
Elisabeth A. Gebreegziabher, Mamadou Ouattara, Mamadou Bountogo, Boubacar Coulibaly, Valentin Boudo, Thierry Ouedraogo, Elodie Lebas, Huiyu Hu, David V. Glidden, Benjamin F. Arnold, Thomas M. Lietman, Ali Sié, Catherine E. Oldenburg   +12 more
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Status and prospects of seasonal malaria chemoprevention among children in Sahelian countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

PLOS Global Public Health
In areas with seasonal malaria transmission, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) involves giving children a three-day course of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine once a month during the transmission season.
Medard Djedanem, Noura Mamane Salé, Elhadji Yacoudima Yacoubou Mahaman Aminou, Jean Testa, Ronan Jambou   +4 more
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Facilitators and Barriers to Uptake of an Extended Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Programme in Ghana: A Qualitative Study of Caregivers and Community Health Workers. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
BackgroundSeasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) is currently recommended for children under five in areas where malaria transmission is highly seasonal.
Gifty D Antwi, Laura A Bates, Rebecca King, Princess R Mahama, Harry Tagbor, Matt Cairns, James N Newell   +6 more
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Evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of integrating mass drug administration for helminth control with seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Ghanaian children: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

Trop Med Int Health
Abstract Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of integrating seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with mass drug administration for helminth control among school‐aged children living in communities where the burden of malaria and helminths is high in Ghana, West Africa.
Afolabi MO, Adu-Gyasi D, Paintain L, Tawiah T, Ali MS, Greenwood B, Asante KP.   +6 more
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Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in northern Mozambique: a cost-effectiveness analysis [PDF]

Malaria Journal
Background Malaria is endemic in Mozambique and one of the leading causes of death in children under 5 years old. In 2020 the country adopted the WHO-recommended seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) strategy and delivered the intervention in all 23 ...
Neide Canana, Ivan Alejandro Pulido Tarquino, Sónia Enosse, Kevin Baker, Maria Rodrigues, Christian Rassi, Akashdeep Singh Chauhan, Chuks Nnaji, Baltazar Candrinho, Elisa M. Maffioli   +9 more
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Phase one of a hybrid effectiveness-implementation study to assess the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Nampula Province, Mozambique [PDF]

Malaria Journal
Background Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a highly effective intervention for malaria prevention in high burden areas with seasonal transmission, historically implemented in the Sahel.
Kevin Baker, Ivan Alejandro Pulido Tarquino, Pedro Aide, Craig Bonnington, Christian Rassi, Sol Richardson, Chuks Nnaji, Arantxa Roca-Feltrer, Maria Rodrigues, Mercia Sitoe, Sonia Enosse, Caitlin McGugan, Francisco Saute, Gloria Matambisso, Baltazar Candrinho   +14 more
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Effect of seasonal malaria chemoprevention on incidence of malaria among children under five years in Kotido and Moroto Districts, Uganda, 2021: time series analysis [PDF]

Malaria Journal
Background Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) refers to monthly administration of full treatment courses of anti-malarial medicine to children
Andrew Kwiringira, Benon Kwesiga, Richard Migisha, Lilian Bulage, Daniel Kadobera, Damian Rutazaana, Julie R. Harris, Alex R. Ario, Julius Ssempiira   +8 more
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Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections and determinants of carriage in a seasonal malaria chemoprevention setting in Northern Cameroon and south Senegal (Kedougou) [PDF]

Malaria Journal
Background Among the several strategies recommended for the fight against malaria, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine combination (SPAQ) targets children 3 months to 5 years in Sahel regions of Africa to
Innocent M. Ali, Isaac A. Manga, Akindeh M. Nji, Valery P. Tchuenkam, Peter Thelma Ngwa Neba, Dorothy F. Achu, Jude D. Bigoga, Babacar Faye, Cally Roper, Colin J. Sutherland, Wilfred F. Mbacham   +10 more
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