The New York Times > International > Africa > AIDS and Custom Leave African Families Nothing: “AIDS and Custom Leave African Families Nothing
By SHARON LaFRANIERE

Published: February 18, 2005

BLANTYRE, Malawi – There are two reasons why 11-year-old Chikumbutso Zuze never sees his three sisters, why he seldom has a full belly, why he sleeps packed sardinelike with six cousins on the dirt floor of his aunt’s thatched mud hut. “