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Saving lives in the Sahel |
Reaching millions of children with seasonal malaria chemoprevention |
Children in Nigeria queue for a dose of malaria preventive medicine. Photo © Malaria Consortium |
In the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of malaria cases occur during the rainy season. Among those most at risk are children under five. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a course of medicine that is up to 75 percent effective in preventing malaria in under-fives at this especially risky time of year. ACCESS-SMC, led by Malaria Consortium in partnership with Catholic Relief Services, is a three-year, UNITAID funded project which will provide an estimated 45 million SMC treatments to 10 million vulnerable children in the Sahel by 2017. In the first year of the project over three million children received this life saving treatment, with over 94 percent of target children being reached according to government data. This year, ACCESS-SMC aims to double its impact and reach over six million children. |
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Want to know more?
Read our new advocacy brief for more information about seasonal malaria chemoprevention, including progress to date, challenges for the future, and key messages for governments and development partners
Download the ACCESS-SMC factsheet for more detail on what Malaria Consortium is doing in the Sahel
Subscribe to the ACCESS-SMC newsletter to keep up to date with news from the programme (scroll to the bottom of the homepage, fill in your details and click subscribe) |
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Symposium on SMC in London |
On 9th June in London, Malaria Consortium held a hugely successful symposium on malaria prevention in the Sahel. The event brought together key stakeholders in the field to share and discuss results from the first year of the ACCESS-SMC project. It included speakers from the World Health Organization, the Nigerian Ministry of Health, the Department for International Development and various international NGOs.
To find out more about the symposium including access to photos and speaker presentations, click the button below. |
| | Video series on ACCESS-SMC |
What's it like to deal with malaria in the Sahel? Malaria Consortium has produced a series of short videos introducing people from Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria who in various ways are affected by malaria. We spoke to families, doctors and local government representatives about the burden of malaria, the prospect of delivering drugs to millions of children across seven countries, and what stronger health systems could mean for the region's future.
All four videos are available to watch online now. You can find them by clicking the button below. |
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