Day November 24, 2021

The Doha Ministerial Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health on its Twentieth Anniversary

[Nirmalya Syam, Viviana Munoz, Carlos M. Correa and Vitor Ido] This Policy Brief reviews the role of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health in the twenty years since its adoption. It finds that the Doha Declaration has contributed to advance the use of the TRIPS flexibilities to promote public health and should be considered an important subsequent agreement to the TRIPS Agreement, despite the continuing challenges for WTO members to implement the TRIPS flexibilities in full.