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Malaria trends in districts that were targeted and not-targeted for seasonal malaria chemoprevention in children under five years of age in Guinea, 2014 - 2021

2023-09-11 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundSeasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is one of the main interventions recommended by WHO to prevent and reduce childhood malaria. Since 2015, Guinea has implemented SMC targeting children aged 3-59 months (CU5) in districts with high and seasonal malaria transmission. ObjectiveWe assessed the programmatic impact of SMC in Guineas context of scaled-up malaria intervention programming by comparing malaria-related outcomes in 14 districts that had (n = 8) or had not (n = 6) been target...

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