This publication introduces the ‘New Rural Social Pension Insurance Programme of Baoji City’, one of the first of its kind in China. It provides administration of the programme, impacts of the programme on rural older people as well as challenges, sustainability and recommendations of the programme.

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The evidence of the impact of HIV and AIDS on older people from HelpAge International research and programmes highlights the hugely problematic gap in the HIV and AIDS response. This is the result of the neglect of older people in HIV and AIDS indicators and therefore, also, in international and national policy and programming.

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This briefing sets out to make the European Union (EU) and member states, African national governments and European non-governmental organisations aware of the importance of including older people in their development policies and practice. It highlights the pivotal position of older people in Africa today, identifies the key challenges facing this generation and cites positive examples of interventions that have changed the lives of older people and those who depend on them.

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This briefing is aimed at the European Union (EU) and member states, European non-governmental organisations, and African national governments. It sets out the need for African governments to revise their legislation to protect older people. It recommends how EU governments can support this process. It highlights the important role that older people play in Africa today, identifies the key areas in which rights abuses can take place, and cites possible examples of interventions that have changed the lives of older people and those who depend on them.

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The voices of poor older people have been little heard in the first five-year review of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, despite the promotion of a participatory approach. This briefing argues that this needs to change in the next review cycle.

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This briefing outlines HelpAge International's call for a major shift in the response to HIV and AIDS, one that includes older people and addresses their needs and caring responsibilities directly, through social protection and through HIV prevention, care and treatment services.

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This briefing explains how in Mozambique older people have set up support groups to cut the costs of care and increase income. Money raised from small businesses started by community credit schemes is put into a social fund run by older people’s committees.

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This publication outlines the reasons for recognising the key role of older people as counsellors and carers. It is based on the Southern Sudan Older People’s Organisation's (SSOPO) work in Juba, Southern Sudan.

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This is a briefing about how an organisation from the Durban townships in South Africa adapted its role to tackle the impact of HIV and AIDS. The Muthande Society for the Aged (MUSA) raises awareness of entitlements and helps individuals make claims, while fostering personal responsibility and mutual support.

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This briefing from AARP and the United Nations Programme on Ageing/DESA, prepared by HelpAge International, proposes ways to realise older people’s rights, highlighting the need for social protection measures; non-discriminatory legislation; identity documents and data on older people; and the integration of older people’s rights into policy processes.

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This publication focuses on the status of older people in Aceh, Indonesia in the context of rehabilitation programmes carried out during the two years following the tsunami disaster, and on opportunities to improve health care for them through community-based services.

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This briefing outlines HelpAge International's call for a universal pension for all people over 60 years of age, in order to realise older people's rights, reduce poverty, tackle HIV and AIDS and effectively support the most vulnerable.

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This briefing discusses how thinking on social protection programmes was taken forward at a landmark meeting of African governments in Livingstone, Zambia in March 2006. It summarises major points raised by participants at the meeting including barriers to social protection and the link between social protection and human rights. It also presents key facts on cost and affordability; social protection and HIV/AIDS; and pilot social cash transfer programmes.

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This is the background briefing for the Intergovernmental regional workshop held in Livingstone, Zambia, 20-23 March 2006, which brought together representatives and ministers from 13 African governments to examine new ways of tackling poverty and promoting the human rights of the poorest people in Africa.

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This paper draws on consultations with poor older people, and HelpAge International research in developing countries, to argue that the lack of adequate, accessible and affordable transport creates a real barrier for older women and men to accessing basic social services.

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A series of briefs discussing key issues on gender and ageing, produced in preparation for the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid in April 2002.

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This briefing paper was produced to mark United Nations Human Rights Day 2000. It challenges the way poverty, social exclusion and discriminatory attitudes effectively set age limits on human rights.

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