Résumé

Between the "vertical financing" and "horizontalfinancing" of health services in developing countries,there exists a third way, labelled "diagonal financing".This diagonal approachseems to be anessential concept forthe positive evolutionof the global structureof health assistance, as explained in Gorik Ooms etal. : The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: acure for the broader malaise of health systems?",March 2008.