TheSeminar series alongside the Asian Development Bank Board meetingin Bakufeatured a session on Universal Health Coverage: “Revealingthefinancial solutions for UHC”. The seminar aimed to explore ways in which developing countries in Asia and the Pacific could achieve financially sustainable universal health coverage. Participants discussed new tools forincreasing financing for health services and ways in which a finance ministry could navigate the political minefield associated with raising and allocating taxes. The Heartfile health financing model was discussed as one of the options for overcoming the financial access barrier for the poor in therealm of UHC. The Seminar was moderated by Stephen P Groff, Asian Development Bank Vicepresident for Operations. Panelists included ; Kiyoshi Modera, VicePresident,Japan International Cooperation Agency; George Gotsadze, Director,CuratioInternational Foundation, Georgia; Rajiv Mehrishi, Secretary Finance,India; and Sania Nishtar, President Heartfile, Pakistan.
