` The Doha Declaration 2001 catalysed a number of subsequent agreements on the provisions of TRIPS and their potential to fulfil the agenda of access to medicines for all.` Discuss

Due to the concerns that surrounded the public health protections , WTO member countries came up with the Doha declaration in 2001 . The Doha declaration did not aim at making modifications in the TRIPS agreement but rather was to make the member countries to maximally use the exceptions in TRIPS as a way of providing essential drugs to the public This was later followed by two more years of deliberation that led to the implementation of paragraph 6 . These two moves contributed to more availability and access to generic drugs . One important issue that

came out of these deliberations was when article 31 (f ) was waived from the TRIPS agreements . In the agreements , it was required that a Compulsory License would only be issued to a country for primary use only . In the paragraph , it meant that poor countries without domestic capabilities were not able to access the drugs from the exporters . Therefore , with the waiver in place , a country was able to be issued with a license for either domestic use or export . This was based on the issue of looking on the needs of the public health

When Doha declaration was passed , it was seen as a triumph in the medical sector by those who were fighting for public health . With the agreement , a distinction between drugs and other commodities that were traded by the WTO members was put in place . This was to adopt flexible measures that were found in the TRIPS agreement for the sake of protecting the public health . There was later a decline in the complaints that were being pressed to the member countries that had inadequate protection of the intellectual property rights . Despite what was seen as a triumph in the medical sector due to the passage of the Doha declaration , implementation still remained...