# South Africa to meet HIV-positive Muppet.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-africa-to-meet-hiv-positive-muppet/118506>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 11, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-africa-to-meet-hiv-positive-muppet/118506 "2002-07-11T21:37:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-africa-to-meet-hiv-positive-muppet/118506/1 "2002-07-11T21:37:51Z")

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I can’t make this stuff up. [South Africa’s Sesame Street](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=763&ncid=763&e=5&u=/nm/20020711/tv_nm/life_sesamestreet_dc_1) will introduce a new Muppet who is HIV-positive. The Muppet will most likely appear in other countries’ Sesame Streets as well. There will be no reference to sexual contact of the disease, and the character is to show that HIV sufferers are not different from other members of the community.

Seems like a wise move to me to introduce the character in an African country, as (unfortunately) more people suffer from HIV and AIDS in Africa than any other continent.

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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-africa-to-meet-hiv-positive-muppet/118506/2 "2002-07-11T21:52:52Z")

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How timely, with AIDS threads causing normal posters to shoot flaming arrows at each other in GD and the Pit right now!!! 😉

Sesame Street once again will save the day!!

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-africa-to-meet-hiv-positive-muppet/118506/3 "2002-07-11T23:22:28Z")

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