Report on Mini Symposium “Vertical to horizontal: How to use the available resources - the experience and its application for UHC”

Abstract

  The vertical program to control tuberculosis in the 1950’s through 1960’s helped the development of the horizontal program of Universal Health Coverage launched in 1961 in Japan. Vertical and horizontal intervention do not compete each other but collaborate with each other. The same should be true for the present day context of global health, namely vertical intervention for tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria control and the horizontal UHC intervention.