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Just four commercial products – tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed food and fossil fuels – account for about a third of global deaths each year.

The Baynouna Solar Park produces over 560 GWh of energy annually – enough to power 160,000 homes.

Over many decades our food environments have relentlessly been encouraging us to make choices that are harmful to our health, through pricing, marketing and availability.

Over many decades our food environments have relentlessly been encouraging us to make choices that are harmful to our health.

YEREVAN, MARCH 25, ARMENPRESS. Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations Mher Margaryan’s letter to the Secretary General has been published as an official document of the UNSC and the General Assembly.

YEREVAN, MARCH 25, ARMENPRESS. Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations Mher Margaryan’s letter to the Secretary General has been published as an official document of the UNSC and the General Assembly.

YEREVAN, MARCH 25, ARMENPRESS. Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations Mher Margaryan’s letter to the Secretary General has been published as an official document of the UNSC and the General Assembly.

YEREVAN, MARCH 25, ARMENPRESS. Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations Mher Margaryan’s letter to the Secretary General has been published as an official document of the UNSC and the General Assembly.

This paper is about the future role of the commercial sector in global health and health equity. The discussion is not about the overthrow of capitalism nor a full-throated embrace of corporate partnerships. No single solution can eradicate the harms from the commercial determinants of health—the business models, practices, and products of market actors that damage health equity and human and planetary health and wellbeing. But evidence shows that progressive economic models, international fra...

A series of articles in The Lancet raps the world’s largest multinational companies for making huge profits at the expense of human and planetary health.