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Scaling up key interventions could halve pneumonia-related childhood mortality

New research finds that increasing the coverage of four pneumonia interventions to at least 90 percent from 2023 until 2030 could prevent half of the predicted deaths from pneumonia of children under five in Chad, Ethiopia and Bangladesh.

Accelerating introduction of life saving vaccines for children

Today, government representatives from Chad, Guinea, Somalia and South Sudan come together to take part in a pivotal workshop, co-convened by Malaria Consortium, that will support efforts to introduce two vital vaccines, the pneum…

Countries commit to move the needle on child survival at 2nd Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia

Malaria Consortium attends the 2nd Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia held today and yesterday in Madrid to lend its voice in galvanising action and seek new and ambitious commitments to accelerate the introduction and scale up o…

New report marks 10 years of transformational seasonal malaria chemoprevention scale up and innovation

A new report has been launched to mark 10 years of the successful implementation of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in Africa.

The report, entitled ‘From concept to scale – Celebrating 10 years of seasonal mala…

Pneumonia project launched in N’Djamena, Chad

A new initiative to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and referral of children with pneumonia in Chad was launched today at an event in N’Djamena. The event was attended by the Minister of Planning and National Ec…

WHO issue new guidelines on seasonal malaria chemoprevention implementation – our response

On 3 June 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new malaria chemoprevention guidelines. While previous WHO policy recommendations provided specific guidance on how chemoprevention interventions should be implemented, th…

Scientific modelling for malaria policymaking

Researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Uganda National Malaria Control Division (NMCD) and Malaria Consortium have co-authored an opinion piece on future malaria modelling and policy shifts, w…

Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme awarded ‘top charity’ status by GiveWell for a sixth year running

Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce that our seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme has been awarded ‘top charity’ status by GiveWell for the sixth year in a row. 

GiveWell, a US-based non-profit …

12 million children set to receive life-saving seasonal malaria chemoprevention

Malaria Consortium is ensuring that around 12 million children under five will receive life-saving protection from malaria despite the COVID-19 pandemic as it prepares to deliver its seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programm…

Guidance document published on implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention during the COVID-19 pandemic

Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of a global operational guidance document on implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in the context of COVID-19. The guide, which is available in English and Fr…

Seasonal malaria chemoprevention set to reach more than 30 million children for the first time

The number of children set to receive seasonal malaria chemoprevention in 2020 will exceed 30 million for the first time, according to the latest figures presented by national malaria programmes at a global planning and review mee…

Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme chosen as a ‘top charity’ by GiveWell for fourth year in a row

Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce that our seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme has been awarded ‘top charity’ status by GiveWell for the fourth year in a row.

GiveWell is a US-based non-prof…

Malaria Consortium launches ‘top-rated’ malaria prevention campaign in Africa’s Sahel

London, 30 July 2019 – Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign has begun across three countries in the Sahel region of Africa.

Over the next four months, the campaign will distribute preventive …

Malaria Consortium programme chosen as ‘top charity’ by GiveWell for third year running

Malaria Consortium is delighted to announce that its seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme has been awarded ‘top charity’ status by GiveWell for the third year in a row.

GiveWell is a US-based non-profit organisa…

Continuing the fight to shrink the malaria map in the Sahel

Another rainy season brings malaria preventive treatment to children

July 2018 marks the fourth year Malaria Consortium will provide preventive treatments to children under five to protect them from malaria during the rainy seaso…

Countries need to prioritize anti-malaria efforts like SMC. Here’s why.

On November 17th, 2017, Chad was the last country to complete the 2017 SMC round. This marked the last ‘implementation’ day of the ACCESS-SMC project, which is scheduled to end on February 28th, 2018. Through ACCESS-SM…

Al Jazeera Interview: James Tibenderana warns of consequences on malaria burden if funding is not secured in time

In this interview, Al Jazeera’s Julie McDonald speaks with Malaria Consortium’s Technical Director James Tibenderana on how seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is an effective method to prevent malaria in children…

Symposium on innovative malaria prevention method held in London

On 9th June, Malaria Consortium ran a symposium in London entitled Transforming the malaria landscape in the Sahel: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention.

In the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa, the risk of malaria increases w…

VIDEO: Urgent political support needed to protect the Sahel's 25 million children (Politics Home)

This article was originally published on Politics Home.

The organisation calls for urgent political and financial support of seasonal malaria chemoprevention to protect children from malaria 'when they are most at risk.'

ACCESS-SMC website launched

Today Malaria Consortium launches its website for the UNITAID funded project, Achieving catalytic expansion of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in the Sahel (ACCESS-SMC), bringing seasonal malaria chemoprevention to children …

Seasonal malaria chemoprevention project officially kicks off

ACCESS-SMC, a UNITAID-funded project, led by Malaria Consortium in partnership with Catholic Relief Services, was officially launched at a meeting in Uganda last month. It is supporting National Malaria Control Programmes across t…

Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention projects in Africa

In the Sahel region of Africa, which covers a broad swathe of land south of the Sahara, malaria remains the leading cause of severe illness and death in young children. A high proportion of the malaria infections in this region ta…