Malaria intervention
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Resources: Briefing note
Authors: Malaria Consortium
This briefing note provides background to the introduction of an intervention designed to prevent illness and death from malaria among young children during peak transmission season.
In March 2012, the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a policy recommendation for a new intervention against Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention, previously referred to as intermittent preventive treatment in children (IPTc), is the intermittent administration of a full course of antimalarial treatment during the malaria season to prevent illness and death from the disease.
Malaria Consortium worked with the Nigerian Ministry of Health to roll out the intervention in Katsina through its management of SuNMaP (the DFID-funded Support for the National Malaria Programme) and with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The intervention was subsequently rolled out across other states.
