(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 
USAID development sectors, including development 
sectors relating to education (including primary and 
pre-primary education), food and nutrition security, 
and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), 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. 
(4) Incorporating NTDs that are recognized as 
high-burden diseases in the Global Burden of Dis-
ease Study 2010 into the program as opportunities 
emerge, to the extent practicable and appropriate. 
(5) Continuing investments in research and de-
velopment for new tools, including diagnostics, 
drugs, and vaccines, for NTDs to ensure that new 
discoveries make it through the pipeline and become 
available to individuals who need them most. 
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SEC. 102. 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 neglected tropical diseases on efforts to control HIV/ 
AIDS when making future programming decisions, as nec-
essary and appropriate. 
(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 has been re-
vealed as one of the most significant co-factors in 
the AIDS epidemic in Africa, as necessary and ap-
propriate. 
(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, particularly Argentina, Brazil, 
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China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, 
Saudi Arabia, and South Africa, to significantly increase 
their role in the control and elimination of NTDs. 
SEC. 103. MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH IN-
STITUTIONS. 
(a) CONGRESSIONAL FINDING.—Congress finds that 
the treatment of high burden neglected tropical diseases, 
including community and school-based deworming pro-
grams, can be a highly cost-effective education interven-
tion and schools can serve as an effective delivery mecha-
nism for reaching large numbers of children with safe 
treatment for soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) 
(round worm, whip worm, and hook worm) 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 
States to urge the World Health Organization and the 
United Nations Development Programme to take the ac-
tions described in subsection (d). 
(c) WORLD BANK INSTITUTE.—The President shall 
direct the United States Executive Director at the Inter-
national Bank for Reconstruction and Development to use 
the voice, vote, and influence of the United States to urge 
the World Bank Institute to take the actions described 
in subsection (d). 
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(d) ACTIONS DESCRIBED.—The actions described in 
this subsection are the following: 
(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) Designate a portion of grant funds of the 
institutions to deworming initiatives and cross-sec-
toral collaboration with water and sanitation and hy-
giene efforts and nutrition or education program-
ming. 
(5) Encourage accurate monitoring and evalua-
tion of NTD programs, including deworming pro-
grams. 
(6) Engage governments in cross-border initia-
tives for the treatment, control, prevention, and 
elimination of NTDs, and assist in developing 
transnational agreements, when necessary. 
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TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
SEC. 201. PROMOTING EFFORTS THROUGH INTERAGENCY 
WORKING GROUPS AND INTERNATIONAL FO-
RUMS. 
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
continue to promote the need for robust programs and ac-
tivities to diagnose, prevent, control, and treat neglected 
tropical diseases— 
(1) through interagency working groups on 
health; and 
(2) through relevant international forums on 
behalf of the United States, including the post-2015 
United Nations development agenda. 
SEC. 202. REPORT ON NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES IN 
THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 12 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, acting through relevant agencies of 
the Department of Health and Human Services, shall sub-
mit to the Congress a report on neglected tropical diseases 
in the United States. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report required by this section 
shall— 
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