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Usefulness of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in the Sahel

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2023
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention is an important intervention recommended for children aged 3–59 months living in highly seasonal transmission areas of the Sahel subregion of Africa to provide protection against malaria during the rainy season. In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Colin J Sutherland and colleagues report on the prevalence of Plasmodium ...
Kayiba Kalenda, Nadine, Tshibangu-Kabamba, Evariste, Nakagama, Yu, Kaku, Natsuko, Kaneko, Akira, Speybroeck, Niko, Kido, Yasutoshi   +6 more
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Spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting during the seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign in 2022

Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2023
Background Seasonal administration of antimalaria drug, sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine to children 3–59 months is a malaria preventive intervention used for the reduction of childhood malaria morbidity and mortality in area with highly ...
Kunle Rotimi, Babatunde Fagbemi, Taiwo Ibinaiye, Jimmy Aiden, Victor Gabriel, Chrysantus Dabes, Tapshak Kyeshir, Daniel Oguche, Omolola Obayemi, Aminu Biambo, Andrew Okwulu, Adaeze Aidenagbon   +11 more
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Malaria chemoprevention and drug resistance: a review of the literature and policy implications

Malaria Journal, 2022
Chemoprevention strategies reduce malaria disease and death, but the efficacy of anti-malarial drugs used for chemoprevention is perennially threatened by drug resistance.
Christopher V. Plowe
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Measuring the impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention as part of routine malaria control in Kita, Mali [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2017
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a new strategy recommended by WHO in areas of highly seasonal transmission in March 2012. Although randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have shown SMC to be highly effective, evidence and experience from routine implementation of SMC are limited.A non-randomized pragmatic trial with pre-post design was used ...
Fatou Diawara, Laura C. Steinhardt, Almahamoudou Mahamar, Tiangoua Traore, Daouda Koné, Halimatou Diawara, Beh Kamaté, Diakalia Koné, Mouctar Diallo, Aboubacar Sadou, Jules Mihigo, Issaka Sagara, Abdoulaye Djimdé, Erin Eckert, Alassane Dicko   +14 more
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A hybrid effectiveness-implementation study protocol to assess the effectiveness and chemoprevention efficacy of implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention in five districts in Karamoja region, Uganda [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Gates Open Research, 2023
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine (SPAQ) for children aged 3 to 59 months, living in areas where malaria transmission is highly seasonal ...
Craig Bonnington, Sol Richardson, Godfrey Magumba, Christian Rassi, Jane Nabakooza, Denis Rubahika, Anthony Nuwa, James Tibenderana, Jimmy Opigo, Jane Achan, Richard Kajubi, Kevin Baker, Jennifer Ainsworth   +12 more
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Shifts in the clinical epidemiology of severe malaria after scaling up control strategies in Mali

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
A decrease in malaria incidence following implementation of control strategies such as use of artemisinin-based combination therapies, insecticide-impregnated nets, intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy and seasonal malaria chemoprevention ...
Drissa Coulibaly, Abdoulaye K. Kone, Bourama Kane, Bouréima Guindo, Bourama Tangara, Mody Sissoko, Fayçal Maiga, Karim Traore, Aichatou Diawara, Amidou Traore, Ali Thera, Mahamadou S. Sissoko, Ogobara K. Doumbo, Mark A. Travassos, Mahamadou A. Thera   +14 more
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Effect of Adding Azithromycin to Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2019
Mass administration of azithromycin for trachoma control led to a sustained reduction in all-cause mortality among Ethiopian children. Whether the addition of azithromycin to the monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine used for seasonal malaria chemoprevention could reduce mortality and morbidity among African children was unclear.We ...
Chandramohan, Daniel, Dicko, Alassane, Zongo, Issaka, Sagara, Issaka, Cairns, Matthew, Kuepfer, Irene, Diarra, Modibo, Barry, Amadou, Tapily, Amadou, Nikiema, Frederic, Yerbanga, Serge, Coumare, Samba, Thera, Ismaila, Traore, Abdourhamane, Milligan, Paul, Tinto, Halidou, Doumbo, Ogobara, Ouedraogo, Jean-Bosco, Greenwood, Brian   +18 more
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Impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention on prevalence of malaria infection in malaria indicator surveys in Burkina Faso and Nigeria [PDF]

BMJ Global Health, 2022
Background In 2012, the WHO issued a policy recommendation for the use of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) to children 3–59 months in areas of highly seasonal malaria transmission. Clinical trials have found SMC to prevent around 75% of clinical malaria.
Monica Anna de Cola, Benoît Sawadogo, Sol Richardson, Taiwo Ibinaiye, Adama Traoré, Cheick Saïd Compaoré, Chibuzo Oguoma, Olusola Oresanya, Gauthier Tougri, Christian Rassi, Arantxa Roca-Feltrer, Patrick Walker, Lucy C Okell   +12 more
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Seasonal malaria chemoprevention and mutations in <i>Pfdhfr</i> and <i>Pfdhps</i> genes in children in the health district of Nanoro, Burkina Faso. [PDF]

Malariaworld J
Millogo KS, Zabré A, Sondo P, Kaboré B, Kouevi AFC, Compaoré EW, Bayala IMC, Ismaïla B, Hien SF, Rouamba T, Kazienga A, Derra K, Rouamba E, Tahita MC, Ouédraogo F, Ilboudo H, Bamba S, Tinto H.   +17 more
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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg
ABSTRACT. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) for children under 5 years of age for up to four monthly cycles during malaria transmission season was recommended by the WHO in 2012 and has been implemented in 13 countries in the Sahel, reaching more than 30 million children annually.
Thwing J, Williamson J, Cavros I, Gutman JR.   +3 more
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