[T]he WHO [World Health Organization] Secretariat...prepared a report for the Executive Board of the WHO warning that WTO trade agreements threaten public health services. They trotted out spurious claims anti-globalization NGOs manufactured several years ago that liberalization of trade in services in the WTO threatens public health services...The idea that international trade poses health risks is laughable. Surely the WHO also has a big enough job to solve global health problems without getting into trade? Anti-globalization NGOs, like Oxfam, the Third World Network, Medecins sans Frontiers and Consumers International, have become so obsessed with the success of free trade and the WTO that they are pushing anti-free trade proposals in any available arena to generate activity to blunt the WTO's agenda.