The SMC project is focused on helping prevent malaria via door-to-door delivery of antimalarials to children 3–9 months over four to five monthly cycles during the peak malaria season by trained community distributors.
This assignment illustrated activities undertaken by Malaria Consortium teams in Nigeria.
A child shows off her SMC child record card after a visit by the community drug distributors in Fanisau Mahauta, Kano state, Nigeria
A community drug distributor marks the homes of the families they have visited in Ungogo, Kano State, Nigeria
Mahmoud, The officer in charge of Sharada PHC prepares SMC medicines for dispatch to community drug distributors CDD.
A community distributor for Malaria Consortium holds a SPAQ Medicine to be distributed in Sharada PHC, Kano State, Nigeria
Lead mother advices a caregiver on the need to follow with their appointment with SMC drugs in Ringim village , Jigawa state, Nigeria