Malaria Consortium runs seasonal malaria chemoprevention: young children get a short monthly course of antimalarial drugs during peak transmission season across the Sahel region of Africa. GiveWell and Giving What We Can estimate this protects one child for about $6-7 a year, rating the programme a top charity since 2017.
Unlike the Against Malaria Foundation's bed nets elsewhere on this list, this funds a different intervention: a seasonal drug course rather than a physical barrier, which GiveWell models as averting a death for roughly $2,000-7,000. The exact per-child cost varies between GiveWell's figure and Malaria Consortium's own, lower estimate.
Where the money goes
Roughly $6-7 funds a year of monthly preventive antimalarial doses for one child during peak malaria season, per GiveWell/Giving What We Can estimates; Malaria Consortium's own per-season cost estimate is lower, around $3-4.
