The Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center (LFSC) serves as the recipient and coordinator of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant entitled “Resolving the Critical Challenges Now Facing the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis” on behalf of the Global Alliance to Eliminate LF (GAELF).

In 1997, the 50th World Health Assembly unanimously approved a resolution to eliminate lymphatic filariasis globally as a public health problem. In 2000, the Global Alliance was created as a group of diverse partners actively targeting two critical objectives defined by the World Health Organization:

     • Stopping the spread of LF infection
     • Alleviating and preventing the disability and suffering in those already infected.

Based at the Task Force for Global Health in Decatur, GA, and affiliated with Emory University, the LFSC provides technical expertise and collaborates closely — locally, nationally, and internationally — with partners involved in global health and the elimination of LF worldwide.