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In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

— Joan Ganz Cooney

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

— Bruce Davison

After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

— Feist

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

— Sarah Churchwell

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

— Charlize Theron

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

— Nelson Mandela

I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.

— Alicia Keys

I'm in awe of the AIDS workers in Africa who teach there, year in and year out.

— Jordana Spiro

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

— Emma Thompson

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

— Nancy Gibbs

Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.

— Shereen El Feki

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