Debate
The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems?
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* Corresponding author: Gorik Ooms gorik.ooms@brussels.msf.org
1 Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium, Dupréstraat 94, 1090 Brussels, Belgium
2 Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
3 Northeastern University, School of Law, 400 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
4 Health GAP (Global Access Project), 429 West 127th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10027, USA
5 Global AIDS Alliance, 1413 K Street NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, USA
6 Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, 1 Stewart Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
Globalization and Health 2008, 4:6 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-4-6
Published: 25 March 2008Additional files
Additional file 1:
Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal approach. This illustration illustrates the effect of vertical, horizontal and diagonal financing approaches in countries where present government health expenditure is about US$10 per person per year.
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Global Health Fund Needs. This table illustrates the needs of a Global Health Fund, aiming at increasing government health expenditure to US$40 per person per year by 2015.
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