Receipt of seasonal malaria chemoprevention by age-ineligible children and associated factors in nine implementation states in Nigeria [PDF]
Background As part of implementation quality standards, community distributors are expected to ensure that only age-eligible children (aged 3–59 months) receive seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) medicines during monthly campaigns.
Taiwo Ibinaiye +8 more
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Usefulness of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in the Sahel
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 +6 more
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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 +11 more
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Malaria chemoprevention and drug resistance: a review of the literature and policy implications
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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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 +12 more
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Shifts in the clinical epidemiology of severe malaria after scaling up control strategies in Mali
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 +14 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]
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 +12 more
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Seasonal malaria chemoprevention for malaria in children in areas with seasonal malaria
This report was considered by the WHO/GMP Guideline Development Group on Malaria Chemoprevention for “Section 4.2.3 Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC)” of the WHO Guidelines for malaria, 3 June 2022.
Thwing JI +4 more
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Combining malaria vaccination with chemoprevention: a promising new approach to malaria control
Malaria control has stalled in a number of African countries and novel approaches to malaria control are needed for these areas. The encouraging results of a recent trial conducted in young children in Burkina Faso and Mali in which a combination of the ...
Brian Greenwood +8 more
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Effectiveness of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in children under 10 years of age in Senegal: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial [PDF]
This study was done to determine the effectiveness of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Senegalese children up to 10 years of age using a stepped-wedge design.
Milligan, Paul
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