FCT Targets Over 1m Children In 2026 Malaria Prevention Campaign

Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has launched the 2026 Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) campaign, targeting over one million children under the age of five across the six area councils of the territory.
At the flag-off of the campaign on Monday in Durumi, Abuja, the mandate secretary, Health Services and Environment Secretariat (HSES), Adedolapo Fasawe, said the exercise aims to provide free preventive malaria treatment to 1,015,240 eligible children aged between three and 59 months during the peak malaria transmission season.
Fasawe said the intervention would be implemented through trained Community Drug Distributors who will administer antimalarial medicines do...