Examples of using Vertical programmes in English and their translations into Arabic
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Health education is also an important component of some of the vertical programmes, especially HIV/AIDS.
Multiple actors delivering health services, and vertical programmes concentrated on specific diseases instead of strengthening the health systems, were said to distort overall health outcomes.
The general constraints to commodity security include the fact that HIV/AIDS andreproductive health are still vertical programmes.
The sustainability of the donor-funded vertical programmes in light of the current financial crisis was also questioned.
He also noted that a large part of the bilateral assistance forhealth is going to Sub-Saharan Africa and vertical programmes, mainly to combat HIV/AIDS.
National vaccine campaigns are examples of vertical programmes that are effective, especially in low-income settings.
Despite the efforts of the SWAP for primary education, UNICEF still remained outside of the sector programme, using vertical programmes instead.
The first approach resulted in the development of vertical programmes to address specific health problems through a limited set of interventions.
The health-care system is fragmented, uneven in its provisionof services between regions and heavily dependent on donor-funded vertical programmes and international non-governmental organizations.
Dealing with rights in isolation, often through vertical programmes focused narrowly on specific needs, rarely addresses the roots of problems, nor does it ensure the complete realization of any right.
Strengthening national child protection systems as a whole helps toavoid the duplication that often occurs with purely vertical programmes developed in isolation for specific categories of children.
Vertical programmes have succeeded in attracting funds and making progress in their respective areas, but a more balanced approach will be required so that improvements are also made in health systems and basic health care.
For that reason,pressing needs have been mostly addressed through vertical programmes focusing on specific diseases, to the detriment of a comprehensive approach.
While the issue of fragmentation arises primarily with respect to other bilateral and multilateral programmes, fragmentation in this case could be eased if most--if not all-- vertical programmes were consolidated under the Global Fund.
Concern was expressed that vertical programmes, focusing on specific diseases instead of strengthening the health systems, would distort overall health outcomes and might not be sustainable in light of the current financial crisis.
Moreover, maintaining a network of under-resourced hospitals and clinics,while human and financial resources were increasingly pulled into vertical programmes, increased pressures on health systems sometimes to the point of collapse.".
For example, the implementation of separate vertical programmes for AIDS and family planning, as is the case in many countries, overlooks the intertwined nature of those issues and leads to duplication and the waste of scarce resources.
Because pressing needs are real, health planners and donors need to find novel ways of integrating their interventions into primary health facilities or,when vertical programmes are appropriate, ensuring that they do not adversely affect efforts to strengthen primary health care.
Vertical programmes that are not integrated into the general health system also create duplication of administrative costs, lead to gaps in care and undermine the Government ' s capacity to improve its own health-care services.
Over the past 40 years, multilateral,bilateral and private donors have tended to favour vertical programmes for disease control and prevention because they are more likely to produce results over short funding cycles.
The development of vertical programmes without the involvement of those concerned was a common problem; the Ethiopian Government and the Women ' s Affairs Office must promote solidarity among women and genuine political mobilization, so as to ensure that women ' s priorities were taken fully into account.
Also, most partnerships are focused primarily on mobilizing the health sector andenhancing health services around vertical programmes, rather than on multisectoral action to catalyse regulatory, legislative and health-system reform, as is required for non-communicable diseases.
The National Policy was structured into vertical programmes, which focused on four areas deemed strategic to the enhancement of Brazil's industrial development and its insertion into the world market- microelectronics, software, pharmaceuticals and industrial machinery- and horizontal programmes, which addressed all industrial sectors in a cross-cutting manner.
Currently, the major international efforts to attain the health MillenniumDevelopment Goals are based on disease-oriented vertical programmes, some of which have been detrimental to the primary care system, with which they compete for scarce human and other resources.
The new framework being developed, with its focus on stages of development(" life-cycles")rather than on vertical programmes, will require a further strengthening of integrated communication interventions which respond to the emerging holistic view of children ' s survival, development and participation in each of the three life-cycles identified: early childhood, basic education period, adolescence.
Response activities include emergency health needs assessment(within the inter-agency action of the United Nations), strengthening national health services, sanitation and piped water services, epidemiological surveillance, stockpiling of essential drugs, training of national staff,implementation of vertical programmes for disease control, vector control and rehabilitation of community hospitals.
He stated that the MTR for Jordan confirmed the achievements in most child indicators,as well as a shift from vertical programmes to a greater emphasis on rights-based, integrated approaches; quality basic services; and greater use of the enormous potential offered by adolescents and young people.
To prevent, treat and control epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases,the Ministry of Health operates a series of vertical programmes to address malaria, filaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, diarrhoeal disease, Hansen ' s disease, HIV/AIDS, drug/alcohol abuse, eye problems and tuberculosis.
In discussing the draft country programmes from the Africa region, delegations appreciated the Fund ' s focus on HIV/AIDS prevention and noted that HIV/AIDS prevention should be incorporated in all reproductive health programmes andnot be a vertical programme.
The expanded programme on immunization in Ghanaoffers a good example of the effective integration of a vertical programme into a SWAP.