diseases in the United States is unknown because of stigma and limited reporting, surveillance, and awareness, one study estimates that there are 12,000,000 individuals living with at least one neglected disease of poverty throughout the country. These diseases disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities living in poverty and in regions where water quality and sanitation are substandard. (11) The major neglected diseases of poverty in the United States that predominantly occur among those living in poverty are the following: toxocariasis, cysticercosis, Chagas disease, toxoplasmosis, trichomoniasis, hookworm infection, and Dengue Fever and related arbovirus infections. (12) There is a lack of diagnostic and treatment programs, including for early diagnosis and treatment, for neglected diseases of poverty. These programs would be highly cost effective and would significantly reduce the burden of morbidity and mortality of these diseases. (13) Funding for research, preventive strategies, vaccines and the development of treatments, diagnostic tests, and other therapeutics for neglected diseases of poverty in the United States is limited. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that there is a need to study the prevalence and incidence of neglected diseases of poverty in the United States, identify preventive methods to combat neglected diseases of poverty, conduct research that will lead to more treatments and diagnostic tests for neglected diseases of poverty, and supply health care providers, public health professionals, and affected individuals and communities with educational resources on neglected diseases of poverty. 4. Definition of neglected diseases of poverty In this Act, the term neglected diseases of poverty has the meaning given such term in section 399OO(e) of the Public Health Service Act, as added by section 5. 5. Programs relating to neglected diseases of poverty Title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 241 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: W