A 2003 scheme to allow access to drugs in less-developed countries under the World Trade Organization's agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) "has been a near total failure," according to an opinion editorial in Canada's Toronto Star newspaper, which supports reforming the process. Only one Canadian firm used the Access to Medicines Regime, finding it "so burdensome that it has vowed not to repeat it," the Star noted.
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