(1) provide integrated drug treatment packages 
to as many individuals suffering from NTDs or at 
risk of acquiring NTDs, including individuals dis-
placed by manmade and natural disasters, as 
logistically feasible; 
(2) better integrate NTD control and treatment 
tools and approaches into complementary develop-
ment and global health programs by coordinating, to 
the extent practicable and appropriate, across mul-
tiple sectors, including those relating to HIV/AIDS, 
malaria, tuberculosis, education, nutrition, other in-
fectious diseases, maternal and child health, and 
water, sanitation, and hygiene; 
(3) establish low-cost, high-impact community- 
and school-based NTD programs to reach large at- 
risk populations, including school-age children, with 
integrated drug treatment packages, as feasible; 
(4) as opportunities emerge and resources 
allow, engage in research and development of new 
tools and approaches to reach the goals relating to 
the elimination of NTDs as set forth by the 2012 
World Health Organization publication ‘‘Accel-
erating Work to Overcome the Global Impact of Ne-
glected Tropical Diseases: A Roadmap for Imple-
mentation’’, including for Chagas disease, Guinea 
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worm, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping 
sickness), leprosy, and visceral leishmaniasis; and 
(5) monitor research on and developments in 
the prevention and treatment of other NTDs so 
breakthroughs can be incorporated into the USAID 
Neglected Tropical Diseases Program, as practicable 
and appropriate. 
(c) PROGRAM PRIORITIES.—The Administrator of 
USAID should incorporate the following priorities into the 
USAID Neglected Tropical Diseases Program (as in effect 
on the date of the enactment of this Act): 
(1) Planning for and conducting robust moni-
toring and evaluation of program investments in 
order to accurately measure impact, identify and 
share lessons learned, and inform future NTD con-
trol and elimination strategies. 
(2) Coordinating program activities with com-
plementary USAID development and global health 
programs, including programs relating to water, 
sanitation, and hygiene, food and nutrition security, 
and education (both primary and secondary), in 
order to advance the goals of the London Declara-
tion on Neglected Tropical Diseases (2012). 
(3) Including morbidity management in treat-
ment plans for high-burden NTDs. 
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(4) Incorporating NTDs included in the Global 
Burden of Disease Study 2010 into the program as 
opportunities emerge, to the extent practicable and 
appropriate. 
(5) Continuing investments in the research and 
development of new tools and approaches that com-
plement existing research investments and ensure 
that new discoveries make it through the pipeline 
and become available to individuals who need them 
most. 
SEC. 8. ACTIONS BY DEPARTMENT OF STATE. 
(a) OFFICE OF THE GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR.— 
It is the sense of Congress that the Coordinator of United 
States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Glob-
ally should fully consider evolving research on the impact 
of NTDs on efforts to control HIV/AIDS when making 
future programming decisions, as necessary and appro-
priate. 
(b) GLOBAL PROGRAMMING.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of State 
should encourage the Global Fund to take into con-
sideration evolving research on the impact of NTDs 
on efforts to control HIV/AIDS when making pro-
gramming decisions, particularly with regard to fe-
male genital schistosomiasis, which studies suggest 
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may be one of the most significant cofactors in the 
AIDS epidemic in Africa, as necessary and appro-
priate. 
(2) GLOBAL
FUND.—In this subsection, the 
term ‘‘Global Fund’’ means the public-private part-
nership known as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, 
Tuberculosis and Malaria established pursuant to 
Article 80 of the Swiss Civil Code. 
(c) G–20 COUNTRIES.—The Secretary of State, act-
ing through the Office of Global Health Diplomacy, should 
encourage G–20 countries to significantly increase their 
role in the control and elimination of NTDs. 
SEC. 9. MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH INSTI-
TUTIONS. 
(a) CONGRESSIONAL FINDING.—Congress finds that 
the treatment of NTDs, including community- and school- 
based deworming programs, can be a highly cost-effective 
intervention, and schools can serve as an effective delivery 
mechanism for reaching large numbers of children with 
safe 
treatment 
for 
soil-transmitted 
helminthiases 
(roundworm, whipworm, and hookworm) in particular. 
(b) UNITED NATIONS.—The President should direct 
the United States permanent representative to the United 
Nations to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United 
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States to urge the World Health Organization and the 
United Nations Development Programme to— 
(1) ensure the dissemination of best practices 
and programming on NTDs to governments and 
make data accessible to practitioners in an open and 
timely fashion; 
(2) highlight impacts of community- and school- 
based deworming programs on children’s health and 
education, emphasizing the cost-effectiveness of such 
programs; 
(3) 
encourage 
governments 
to 
implement 
deworming campaigns at the national level; 
(4) consider the designation of a portion of 
grant funds of the institutions to deworming initia-
tives and cross-sectoral collaboration with water, 
sanitation, and hygiene efforts and nutrition or edu-
cation programming, as practicable and appropriate; 
(5) encourage accurate monitoring and evalua-
tion of NTD programs, including deworming pro-
grams; and 
(6) engage governments in cross-border initia-
tives for the treatment, control, prevention, and 
elimination of NTDs, and assist in developing 
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transnational agreements, when and where nec-
essary. 
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