Sesame Street to introduce HIV-positive Muppet

[big4life]

Here are some facts.

More than 2,000 children are infected with HIV each day worldwide according to recent estimates.
- Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS


More than 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide and 2.7 million of them are children.
- Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS


Worldwide, approximately 25 million people have died of AIDS since the beginning of epidemic, approximately 5 million of them were children.
- Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS


In 2001, 5 million people were newly infected with HIV – 800,000 of them were children.
Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS


In 2001, 3 million people died of AIDS – 580,000 (1,600 per day) of them were children.
Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS


Experts predict that more people will die of AIDS in the next decade than have died in all the wars of the 20th century.
UNAIDS Security Council Session on AIDS Crisis- January 10, 2000 New York Times


More than 95% of people with HIV live in the developing world.
- AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS


Life expectancy at birth in southern Africa, which rose from 44 years in the early 1950s to 59 in the early 1990s, is expected to drop to just 45 between 2000 and 2010 because of AIDS.
AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2000 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS


Worldwide, about 50% of all new HIV infections acquired after infancy occur among young people 15-24 years old.
- AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS


As early as the year 2010, the global number of infants and children under 15 who have lost their mother or both parents to AIDS will reach 40 million.
- CDC Prevention News August 8/24/99


An estimated 13.2 million children younger than age 15 had lost their mothers or both parents by the end of 1999.
- Report on the global HIV/AIDS Epidemic June 2000. UNAIDS.


It is estimated that half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. are among people under 25.
- HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vol. 12, No.1 June 2000.


In the U.S., it is estimated that 2 adolescents are infected with HIV each hour.
- Youth Report 2000- White House Office of National AIDS Policy


In 2001, more than 6,000 young people worldwide aged 15-24 became infected with HIV every day - that is, about four every minute.
- AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.


Recent figures show that women now account for 32% of all newly identified HIV positive cases in the U.S.
- HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vol 12, No 1. June 2000.


Recent figures show that women now account for 44% of all the number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide.
- Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS


For more info.

http://www.pedaids.org/main.html

 

[p0ink]

will this aids muppet air on american tv?

 

[CAGED whiteman]

can you post a link to this...just goes to show how pathetic that place is.

 

[p0ink]

http://www.theonion.com/onion3218/gaymuppet.html

 

[CAGED whiteman]

man...

that is sad...what is happening to this country?

 

[Natymike]

Its not this country, is South Africa, where AIDS is rampant.

I personally have nothing wrong with it, it telling the children at a young age not to segregate someone with HIV.

 

[creep]

Education is the only way to prevent this situation from getting worse.

 

[BigBazooka]

How did this muppet contract the disease? I wonder.

Snufulufugus fucked him in the ass w/o a condom. Snufulufugus himself got HIV from an infested heroine needle.

 

[CAGED whiteman]

Its not this country, is South Africa, where AIDS is rampant.

I personally have nothing wrong with it, it telling the children at a young age not to segregate someone with HIV.

i am not talking about the aids one, i am talking about the faggot one here in the states...read poinks link.

 

[Taps]

I think some of you are anthropormiphizing the situation...just because the idea of an HIV-positive muppet is bizare in our culture doesn't mean that it isn't acceptable in a different one.

Ok, that was probably the strangest thing I've ever written. lol

Anway, my point is that morals and all that other nonsense don't mean a fucking thing when you're dieing of AIDS. If Sesame Street can help educate kids on how to avoid the deasese (and be tolerant at the same time) more power to 'em. Personally, I think that if we were more openminded and straightforward in North America, we'd have half as many problems as we do.