Kami Is My New HIV Positive Friend: HIV Ed Enters Kindergarten

NYC is finally following through with Dpt of Ed mandate that all students from Kindergarten to 12th grade are required to receive education about HIV/AIDS. This belated Kindergarten curriculum has a new HIV positive puppet, Kami, from the South African version of Sesame Street, Takalani Street. Here's the curriculum for third graders and up.

"Talking with Kids on discussing HIV and AIDS with children and the KidsHealth explanation of HIV. And the NYC Department of Health's information about HIV - which is definitely not geared for children. And in other young New Yorker news, health officials are targeting day care centers to make sure they feed their charges healthy foods."

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