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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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Effect of routine seasonal malaria chemoprevention on malaria trends in children under 5 years in Dangassa, Mali [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2020
Abstract Background Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a new strategy to prevent malaria in children under 5 years old. It has been recommended by the World Health Organization since 2012 in malaria-endemic areas with seasonal transmission. This study aimed to assess the changes in malaria indicators through two consecutive years of SMC routine ...
Drissa Konaté, Sory Ibrahim Diawara, Mahamoudou Touré, Seidina A. S. Diakité, Agnès Guindo, Karim Traoré, Ayouba Diarra, Bourama Keïta, Sibe Thiam, Moussa Keïta, Ibrahim Sissoko, Nafomon Sogoba, Sékou F. Traorè, Donald J. Krogtad, Seydou Doumbia, Mahamadou Diakité   +15 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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Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Coverage Survey Guinea, 2017 [PDF]

, 2018
Loua, K, Milligan, P
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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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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 Okell   +12 more
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Pharmacometric evaluation of amodiaquine-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine seasonal malaria chemoprevention in northern Uganda

medRxiv
Bonnington C, Nuwa A, Theiss-Nyland K, Kajubi R, Kamya MR, Nankabirwa J, Ebong C, Rassi C, Nabakooza J, Opigo J, Salandindi D, Odongo M, Sararat C, Watson JA, Suwannasin K, Proux S, Koesukwiwat U, Tarning J, Imwong M, Tibenderana J, Nosten F, White N.   +21 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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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Genotypic analysis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites in a clinical trial of RTS,S vaccination in combination with seasonal malaria chemoprevention

medRxiv
LaVerriere E, Kelley K, Dicko A, Sagara I, Mahamar A, Ouedraogo J, Zongo I, Tinto H, Chandramohan D, Greenwood B, Neafsey DE.   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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
europepmc   +2 more sources