**Acknowledgements**

The authors would like to specifically thank Sergio Lopes and Allan Schapira for their comments and inputs to the manuscript. We thank Irwin Chavez for supporting EndNote citations and references. The authors thank WHO for approval to reproduce **Figures 1** and **2** taken from [2]. Data for Thailand and Vietnam in **Table 1** was supported by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), in partnership with the Global Malaria Programme of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to develop multi-country, multi-institutional research on Investigation of the magnitude and causes of residual malaria parasite transmission in selected settings.

MDA Mass drug administration

MOH Ministry of Health

RDT Rapid diagnostic test

SES Socio-ecological system

, Indra Vythilingam<sup>2</sup>

2 University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3 Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom

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