Kami

...40th anniversary, Global Voices Online looks at one of the most controversial characters: Kami, a HIV-positive Muppet from South Africa. Kami is the world's first HIV-positive Muppet. She was introduced back in 2002 to help educate kids...

In this article: AIDS, HIV, Sesame Street, Rosemarie Truglio, U.S., Unicef, and Global Voices Online

...of the population is estimated to be carrying the virus, but its victims are shunned as sick, contagious and amoral. That's where Kami (that's her up there), a 5-year-old orphan who lost her mother to AIDS, comes in. The process of...

In this article: Sesame Street, AIDS, Sesame Workshop, HIV, Takalani Sesame, PBS, and South Africa

...December 1982 death as a way to teach young viewers about death as a natural part of life. It also broke new ground in introducing Kami, the world's first HIV-positive Sesame Street Muppet, on "Takalani Sesame," the South African version of...

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...version of the song. Never afraid to address difficult subjects, the South African version of the show uses the character Kami to help kids who might have lost their parents to AIDS. Here we see her talk to former US president Bill...

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...two-year-old Jalan Sesama, funded in part by the U.S. government, features a baby rhino and Tantan, left, a sage orangutan. aEUR¢ Kami, right, the world's first Muppet with HIV, debuted in 2002 on South Africa's Takalani Sesame.

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...to take account of local circumstances. The South African version, for example, includes a character called Kami who is HIV positive and whose mother died of HIV\AIDS. The use of a puppet in a children's TV series to teach lessons about...

In this article: Elmo, Sesame Street, Rosita, Kevin Clash, Ricky Gervais, Ice cream, Dog, and HIV

Kami poses with UNICEF executive director Carol Bellamy after being named UNICEF's Champion for Children in November 2003 Kami is a character on Takalani Sesame ("be happy Sesame" in Venda ), which is the South African version of the...

In this article: HIV, Takalani Sesame, Sesame Street, Unicef, AIDS, PBS, International AIDS Conference, and Champion

In South Africa, for example, where hundreds of thousands of children have been orphaned by AIDS, an orange, pink-nosed female Muppet named Kami is HIV positive and helps educate children about the syndrome on Takalani Sesame. And on...

In this article: Sesame Street, HIV, Iraq War, Zeitgeist, AIDS, Big Bird, and Google

...with 30 active co-productions in 140 countries. In South Africa, Takalani Sesame aims to de-stigmatize HIV positive orphans through Kami, a muppet who is open about his medical condition yet has self-esteem and friends. Knell admits that...

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...aEURoeSisimpuraEUR� uses some traditional Bangladeshi puppets, and South AfricaaEUR™s aEURoeTakalani SesameaEUR� features Kami, an orphaned H.I.V.-positive Muppet. But in each co-production, at least in its early years, every detail...

In this article: Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop, H.I.V., Kosovo, and United States