I'm told in the S.A. culture, particularly among the blacks, that wearing a condom is considered "highly unmannly" and pride factor runs very high, in other words, we could ship 40 billion condoms free to S.A. and they'd simply use them for water balloons, nothing more, nothing less.
The real question here is, is the puppet to teach children to accept the diseased children in school? Is it to teach safe sex?(doubt it) Is it to teach a "Moralistic approach with optimisim"? (the character in question is supposed to be a very optimistic character, even though stricken with a fatal virus)