(8)The Doha Declaration on the Agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPs) and Public Health affirmed that ‘the TRIPs Agreement does not and should not prevent members from taking measures to protect public health’ and that it ‘can and should be interpreted and implemented in a manner supportive of WTO members' right to protect public health and, in particular, to promote access to medicines for all’ and reaffirmed ‘the right of WTO members to use, to the full, the provisions in the TRIPs Agreement which provide flexibility for this purpose’.