The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is an international journal of public health with a special focus on developing countries. Since it was first published in 1948 the Bulletin has become one of the world's leading public health journals. As the flagship periodical of the World Health Organization (WHO) the Bulletin draws on WHO experts as editorial advisers reviewers and authors as well as on external collaborators. In this month's issue: Climate change and health: recent progress; Health for all: a pathway to economic growth in the Association of South-East Asian Nations; Age-specific prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection in young pregnant women Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China; Asbestos: use bans and disease burden in Europe; Drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Malawi: a cross-sectional survey; Systematic review of statistics on causes of deaths in hospitals: strengthening the evidence for policy-makers; Improving the estimation of the tuberculosis burden in India; The global diffusion of organ transplantation: trends drivers and policy implications; Achieving compliance with the International Health Regulations by overseas territories of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Establishing an early warning alert and response network following the Solomon Islands tsunami in 2013.