To investigate the effectiveness of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) and community case management with long‐acting artemisinin‐based combination therapies (ACTs) for the control of malaria in areas of extended seasonal malaria transmission. Individually randomised, placebo‐controlled trial in the ...
Seasonal malaria chemopreventionBackground:Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a WHO-recommended intervention for children aged 3-59months living in areas of high malaria transmission to provide protection against malaria during the rainy season. Operational guidelines were developed, based on WHO ...
Background Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is recommended in the Sahel region of Africa for children under 5 years of age, for up to 4 months of the year. It may be appropriate to include older children, and to provide protection for more than 4 months. We evaluated the effectiveness...
In rural African settings, most of the children under the coverage of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) are also undernourished at the time of SMC delivery, justifying the need for packaging malarial and nutritional interventions. This study aimed at assessing the impact of SMC by coupling the...
Differences between urban and rural contexts in terms of sociodemographic characteristics, geographical features and risk perceptions may lead to disparities in coverage and related outcomes of community-based preventive interventions, such as seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC). This study investigated urba...
SMC involves the administration of a treatment course of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine once a month to children aged 3–59 months during the high risk period each year to prevent malaria. SMC over 4 months of the year was introduced in Guinea in 2015 in 6 prefectures, scaling up...
following the new recommendation by the WHO in 2012 for the prevention of the disease in children under five years old, for areas of highly seasonal malaria transmission.The objective of this study was to assess the implementation fidelity of the seasonal malaria chemoprevention strategy in one of...
Introduction: Burkina Faso started nationwide community case management of malaria (CCMm) in 2010. In 2011, health center user fees for children under five were abolished in some districts. Objective: To assess the effects of concurrent implementation of CCMm and user fees abolition on treatment-see...
Correction: Sub-National Targeting of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in the Sahelian Countries of the Nouakchott Initiative.Correction: Sub-National Targeting of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in the Sahelian Countries of the Nouakchott Initiative.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140414Abd...
Pharmacovigilance Reporting During Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Nigeria: Findings From the 2020 Campaign Background\nSeasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaign is known to reduce malaria-related morbidity and mortality among children aged 3 -59 months in ... K Rotimi,J Aiden,C Dabes,......