Study	Reason for exclusion
Aponte 2009	A pooled analysis of 6 trials
Bojang 2010	Intermittent preventive treatment in children (IPTc) was the intervention studied and control arm was not randomized
Cissé 2006	IPTc was the intervention studied
Dicko 2008	IPTc was the intervention studied
Dicko 2011a	IPTc was the intervention studied
Dicko 2011b	IPTc was the intervention studied
Glinz 2015	Age of participants at enrolment was 12 to 36 months
Greenwood 1988	Chemoprophylaxis, not intermittent preventive treatment (IPT)
Konaté 2011a	IPTc was the intervention studied
Konaté 2011b	IPTc was the intervention studied
Kweku 2008	IPTc was the intervention studied
Lemnge 1997	Chemoprophylaxis (not IPT)
Liljander 2010	IPTc was the intervention studied
Menendez 1997	Chemoprophylaxis (not IPT)
Phiri 2012	IPT given to participants post discharge following recovery from malarial anaemia
Senn 2012	Study conducted outside sub‐Saharan Africa
Sesay 2011	IPTc was the intervention studied
Tagbor 2011	IPTc was the intervention studied
Tine 2011	IPTc was the intervention studied
Wolde 1994	Chemoprophylaxis (not IPT)

Abbreviations: IPT: intermittent preventive treatment; IPTc: intermittent preventive treatment in children.