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To expand access, the Ministry of Health has scaled up routine malaria community case management (mCCM) for all ages over the past decade. As of 2018, nearly a quarter of children who received antimalarials obtained them from a community health worker (CHW), but gaps in treatment seeking remain. Proactive community case management (proCCM), under which CHWs regularly visit households to screen, test and treat individuals for malaria, aims to improve timely case management, avert severe disease and potentially reduce transmission. To evaluate the impact of weekly proCCM on malaria parasite prevalence and incidence in the context of strong routine community case management, we conducted a two-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial, comparing proCCM plus routine passive care to routine passive care only in Chadiza District, Eastern Province, Zambia, between April 2021 and May 2023. 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