The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems?

Gorik Ooms¹ , Wim Van Damme² , Brook K Baker³^,4 , Paul Zeitz⁵ and Ted Schrecker⁶

¹Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium, Dupréstraat 94, 1090 Brussels, Belgium

²Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium

³Northeastern University, School of Law, 400 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA

⁴Health GAP (Global Access Project), 429 West 127th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10027, USA

⁵Global AIDS Alliance, 1413 K Street NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, USA

⁶Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, 1 Stewart Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada

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Globalization and Health 2008, 4:6doi:10.1186/1744-8603-4-6


Published:	25 March 2008

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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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