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Nature 444, 412-413 (23 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444412b; Published online 22 November 2006

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Fruits of research should be made available to developing world, say critics.

This month sees the fifth anniversary of the Doha declaration, an international agreement signed by the world's trade ministers that was aimed at broadening poor countries' access to medicines. But in the intervening five years, the main provisions in the declaration have not been used and access to treatments remains dire.