ACCESS-SMC

ACCESS-SMC is a UNITAID-funded project, led by Malaria Consortium in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), which is supporting National Malaria Control and Elimination Programs in seven countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, The Gambia) to lead the first-ever at-scale roll out of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC). Over the next two years, this project will provide an estimated 45 million treatments to vulnerable children.

ACCESS-SMC will…

• Reduce costs of SMC and promote wider adoption of this intervention by demonstrating the feasibility and impact at large scale.

• Transform a fragmented, unstructured market of non-quality assured SMC products into a well-structured one that will assure the delivery of quality assured medicines to greater numbers of eligible children in need of protection from seasonal malaria both within and beyond the life of this project and beyond the seven supported countries.