WHO Publishes New Malaria Prevention Field Guide
Across the Sahel sub-region of Africa, most childhood malaria mortality and morbidity occurs during the rainy season, which is generally short. The provision of effective malaria treatment at intervals during this period has been shown to prevent illness and death from malaria among children.
The World Health Organization’s new field guide provides the necessary technical and operational information and tools for country-level policy-makers and programme managers to decide on how to adopt and implement Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention.