Paediatric surgical conditions in Malawi - A cross-sectional nationwide household survey.

"Competing interests None of the authors have any competing interests to declare."

"Funding Permission to use the SOSAS tool was granted at no cost by the Surgeons Overseas group. The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) financed a “Norhed” Programme supporting the training of surgeons and surgical research in Malawi. This programme provided a PhD grant to authors CV and LB, payed the costs for the data collection exercise and financed the computer tablets for data collection. The computer tablets were donated to the Kamuzu Central Hospital Surgery Department for further surgical research at the end of the study. The Norhed programme also covered costs in relation to support for data collectors' meals, transport costs and accommodation during the data collection period."