Seasonal malaria chemoprevention combined with community case management of malaria in children under 10 years of age, over 5 months, in south-east Senegal: A cluster-randomised trial.

<h4>Background</h4>Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is recommended in the Sahel region of Africa for children under 5 years of age, for up to 4 months of the year. It may be appropriate to include older children, and to provide protection for more than 4 months. We evaluated the ef...

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Main Authors: Jean Louis A Ndiaye, Youssoupha Ndiaye, Mamadou S Ba, Babacar Faye, Maguette Ndiaye, Amadou Seck, Roger Tine, Pape Moussa Thior, Sharanjeet Atwal, Khalid Beshir, Colin Sutherland, Oumar Gaye, Paul Milligan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-03-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002762