page_title: Puppets Against AIDS
section_title: AREPP
hierarchical_section_title: Puppets Against AIDS / AREPP
caption_attribution_description: English: Cape Town, South Africa, 1980s. World AIDS Day Performance of Puppets Against AIDS. A puppeteer playing a doctor is drawing blood from Joe, the protagonist of the puppet show, to see if Joe tests positive for HIV.
context_page_description: In the late 1980s, the African Research and Educational Puppetry Program founded "Puppets Against Aids", a traveling puppet show that visited African villages and cities to encourage audience members to use condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission.
context_section_description: The African Research and Educational Puppetry Program (AREPP) was launched in 1987 in South Africa as a community trust to research indigenous puppetry and mask performances for the purpose of supplementing social and health education with puppet shows and theater promoting life skills and self-efficacy in underserved areas. AREPP used puppets to teach  "basic AIDS education" in the absence of a concerted government effort during the apartheid era.
  The founders of AREPP included Gary Friedman, Maishe Maponga, Ann Wanless and Oupa Mtimkulu.
  AREPP later became known as AREPP Theater for Life Trust, shifting its focus to schools in poverty-stricken areas characterized by a high prevalence of HIV infection, sexual abuse and child head of households.
caption: 1980's, Cape Town, South Africa. World AIDS Day performance of Puppets Against AIDS.
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