SMC | Optimising Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in West and Central Africa

8th SMC Alliance Annual Review: Key takeaways

World Malaria Day 2025

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Global health

Optimizing seasonal malaria chemoprevention

Photo: Toby Madden / MMV

Photo: Toby Madden / MMV

SMC is to be implemented in areas where malaria is highly seasonal, and transmission is intense.

Photo: Toby Madden / MMV

Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) is the intermittent administration of full treatment of an anti-malarial medicine during the malaria season to prevent malarial illness.

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Featured Resources

SMC Alliance Learnings Report April 2025

SMC Alliance 2025 Annual Meeting (Lomé) Presentations

WHO guidelines for malaria, 30 November 2024

World Health Organization

SMC Alliance 2024 annual meeting presentations

SMC Alliance 2024 annual meeting (Abuja) presentations

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News

Africa-Europe partnership launches project to optimize malaria vaccine implementation and uptake

The OPT-SMC project comes to a successful end

OPT-SMC team hosts a writing workshop in Dakar, Senegal

Events

19–27 May 2025

78th World Health Assembly

Geneva, Switzerland

20–27 May 2025

Geneva Health Forum 2025

Geneva, Switzerland

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Resources

OPT SMC Project - Dr. Fatimata Sall of the University of Thiès, Senegal, shares her thoughts

SMC Alliance Learnings Report April 2025

Malaria, a thousand-year-old disease that is still relevant today (French only, 19 minutes)

Expertise France

SMC Alliance 2025 Annual Meeting (Lomé) Presentations

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