while acknowledging potential trade-offs that may be needed. Critically, it considers the target populations most at risk; primarily infants, children, and pregnant women. Malaria control and elimination requires appropriate chemoprevention, not only in areas of...
Malaria is preventable, but the burden of disease remains high with over 249 million cases and 608,000 deaths reported in 2022. Historically, the most important protective interventions have been vector control and chemopreventive medicines with over 50 million children receiving seasonal malaria ...
The meaning of CHEMOPREVENTION is the use of chemical agents to prevent or slow the development of cancer.
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention combined with community case management of malaria in children under 10 years of age, over 5 months, in south-east Senegal... Seasonal malaria chemoprevention combined with community case management of malaria in children under 10 years of age, over 5 months, in ...
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 ...
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...
Malaria remains a leading cause of ill health, causing an estimated 216 million cases of clinical malaria and 655 thousand deaths in 2010 a . More than 85% of malaria cases and 90% of malaria deaths occur in Africa south of the Sahara, here the vast majority of cases...
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...
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...
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...