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TRIPS AGREEMENT: TRADE AND PUBLIC HEALTH TAKE SHOTS ON EACH OTHERTrips Agreement • December 9th, 2020
The debate between IP and Human rights particularly, Public Health comes into picture when the concern of access to essential medicines at affordable prices in developing and least developed countries is raised. In this whole deliberation TRIPS Agreement and Doha Declaration has an important role to play. The TRIPS Agreement raises a strong question that whether the Industrial interest shall be kept above public health? Through the DOHA Deceleration it was assured that TRIPS agreement includes various flexibilities like transitional period, compulsory licensing, parallel imports, etc. by which they can tackle their health problems.But in practice, use of the flexibilities provided by the TRIPS agreement was being challenged, politically and legally, by multinational pharmaceutical companies and developed countries. The strategies adopted by the developed countries and pharmaceutical industries can call them an INTELLECTUAL TERRORIST.Here in this article we will discuss the TRIPS Agreem
