Under the leadership of the Africa Group, a bloc of more than 80 countries representing a majority of WTO Member States forced concessions from rich countries on the controversial issue of public health and drug company patent rights, despite fierce pressure from the U.S., E.U., Japan and Switzerland to divide the countries....But the declaration that emerged on public health and TRIPS from three days of negotiations was robbed of its full potential, activists say..."At the end of the day, opposition from rich countries crippled the legally binding language sought by the majority of WTO countries."