Ageways 71 highlights the impact of HIV and AIDS on older people, both as carers and at risk of infection themselves. It sets out the case for including older people in data, policies and programmes, and it gives practical examples of how to do this.

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Comments on the five-year review of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and calls for older people’s voices to be better heard in the next review cycle. Reports on new UN recommendations on older people and emergencies, pension improvements in Chile and Bolivia, and plans by the African Union to further social protection.

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Increasing numbers of people are entering old age with little or no means of support. Ageways 70 presents the case for social pensions as an effective way to reduce older people's poverty and that of their families. It argues for a universal rather than a means-tested approach.

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This issue includes a briefing on African views of social protection, a profile of a local NGO’s work to raise rights in Jamaica and an article on mainstreaming ageing in Uganda.

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This provides new evidence on the situation of older people in developing countries and in Eastern and Central Europe, drawing on recent statistics and research by HelpAge International's global network. Its reflects older people's views and experiences, recorded in consultations held in 32 countries during 2001/02 in preparation for the Second World Assembly on Ageing.

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