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Medikidz is a global initiative set up by doctors to explain medical information to children. The Medikidz superheroes are used to explain medical conditions, investigations, diagnoses, medicines and surgical procedures to young patients and their families – in a way that they can understand. The company was founded in New Zealand by Kim Chilman-Blair and co-founder Kate Hersov in order to improve children's health information around the world.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Medikidz is a global initiative set up by doctors to explain medical information to children. The Medikidz superheroes are used to explain medical conditions, investigations, diagnoses, medicines and surgical procedures to young patients and their families – in a way that they can understand.2
The charitable arm of the company, The Medikidz Foundation, has done work in Africa, most recently donating 100,000 comic books on HIV to Swaziland. The Medikidz Foundation is now due to increase the work they are doing in poorer countries, funded by the commercial arm of the business.
From Wikipedia’s article on Medikidz, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
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