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Wednesday 18 September 2002
South Africa's Sesame Street Gets HIV+ Muppet

South Africa's Sesame Street Gets HIV+ Muppet
(Reuters) - South Africa's Sesame Street community welcomed a fluffy five-year-old orphan living with HIV Tuesday in the government's latest effort to stem the AIDS pandemic ravaging the country and the continent. Education Minister Kader Asmal was the first outsider to hug Kami, a lively bear-like Muppet with a passion for nature, after her public debut at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital, the only one in the country offering drug therapy for children with AIDS.