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HelpAge International estimates that up to 200,000 older people have been affected by Pakistan’s worst floods in 80 years.

HelpAge International is planning to respond to the worst floods in Pakistan in 80 years in partnership with medical aid agency Merlin.

Peru's President Alan Garcia has officially announced the launch of a monthly non-contributory pension for older people over 75 living in extreme poverty.

Older people's associations promoted by HelpAge International have been such a success in one Cambodian province that they are to be replicated across the country.

Grassroots home-based carers demonstrated their central role in responding to HIV and AIDS. They called for immediate action and investments in their organizations and initiatives at the International AIDS Conference last week.

Six months after 12 January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, HelpAge International has responded to the most urgent needs of 24,000 older people and their families.

The World Cup culminates this week and thousands of football fans will leave South Africa. But as the memory of their trip fades, the country’s problems will remain as sharp as ever.

This week, the Government of Tanzania announced the results of a major study that finds that a universal non-contributory pension is affordable and can be implemented in Tanzania.

HelpAge International is to distribute 500 hygiene kits to older people caught up in the Kyrgyzstan conflict. The kits include items such as soap, shampoo, towels, toothpaste, cutlery and plates and will be given out next week.

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day takes place on 15 June 2010. Across the world hundreds of international, national, regional and community organisations and governmental bodies are drawing attention to elder abuse and its significance as a public health and human rights issue.

The UN’s independent expert on extreme poverty and human rights has launched her second report, this time focusing on older people, human rights and social protection.

In Ethiopia, droughts and then floods are commonplace. Older people are taking the lead by using their knowledge to build latrines and wells in the appropriate places and averting an impending emergency.