MULTIPLY

As efforts to control malaria are stalling, and the disease is particularly severe in children under the age of two, it is imperative for countries in sub-Saharan Africa, with areas of moderate-to-high transmission, to implement Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC) previously known as Intermittent Preventive Treatment in infants (IPTi) delivered through the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI ), which is the only feasible, sustainable and cost-effective strategy to reach this high-risk group. PMC is a full therapeutic course of antimalarial medicine (with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, SP) delivered to infants in the context of routine immunisation services during the first two years of life. MULTIPLY is the pilot implementation of PMC in selected districts in Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Togo to maximise the delivery and uptake of PMC, to achieve the full potential of this intervention. Working with the ministries of health in Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Togo, MULTIPLY will give up..

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