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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Institute 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

Additional 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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Additional file 2:

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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