Offline App Expands Malaria Protection for Children in Benin
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But malaria can be prevented with several interventions, including medications provided during
seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC). When the summer rain arrives, health workers supported by USAID through the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) treat children with four monthly rounds of SMC.
Research and previous experience show that it works. During the 2019 campaign, the PMI and USAID-supported Integrated Health Services Activity, led by Management Sciences for Health, treated more than 100,000 children below the age of five reducing malaria cases by
50 percent compared to the last two years in Malanville-Karimama and Tanguiéta-Matéri-Cobly, two of Benin’s health administration zones in Alibori and Atacora, respectively. Seeing this success, PMI and USAID partnered with the Global Fund, which supported treatments in Banikoara and Kandi-Gogounou-Ségbana, to cover all of Alibori this year.