03/02/2017 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 30 January, the WTO Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) marked the entry into force, on 23 January, of the first amendment to the TRIPS agreement since the WTO was created, securing a legal pathway to ease access to affordable medicines in developing countries. This amendment gives these countries, which rely mostly on imports for their medicinal needs and lack the capacity to produce generics, the possibility to...