Elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem in Malawi.

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"The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"The programmatic and operational research work was primarily funded by the National Ministry of Health, Malawi and the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, through funding from the U.K. Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO; formerly Department for International Development, DFID) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to MJB, CDM and MJT. Co-author CB was supported by the Medical Research Council [Project number 2267306].The study on the Easy Access Group surveillance led by BN and TM received financial support from the Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases [Number 204], which is funded at The Task Force for Global Health primarily by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, by the United States Agency for International Development through its Neglected Tropical Diseases Program, and with UK Aid from the UK Government. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."