The 2023 cycle of Seasonal Malaria Chemo-prevention (SMC) for the prevention of malaria in children is set to begin. It is aimed at 2.2 million children in Bauchi state between the ages of three and 59 months.
The exercise is scheduled to take place from Saturday, August 15 through Tuesday, August 18. It will hold across the state’s 20 LGAs, and will be repeated four more times as the rainy season remained.
This was said by Kabiru Mohammed Algamawy, the Bauchi State Programme Coordinator of the Malaria Consortium. He mentioned it at a pre-implementation media briefing for the exercise’s rollout. The rollout was conducted at the office of the Bauchi State Agency for the Control of Malaria, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and HIV/AIDS (BACTMA).
He claims that the SMC campaign’s goal is to maintain the recipient’s blood’s appropriate therapeutic antimalarial medication concentration for the duration of the malaria danger season.
According to Kabiru Mohammed, the burden of malaria has decreased from 2020 to 2022 by 12.5%. He also noted a decrease in out-of-pocket expenses for malaria treatment.
cc: Independent Ng
