Effect of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria on health and education in schoolchildren
Children living in areas of high malaria transmission rapidly acquire immunity to malaria in early childhood; by the time they reach school age, the risk of clinical attacks and death has reduced.However, many school-aged children continue to harbour asymptomatic parasitaemia, which can cause anaemia.4 Although malaria might have an adverse eff ect on cognition and education outcomes, evidence for this has so far been lacking, and the case for school-based malaria control has not been established.