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Kenya
2001
DESTINY
At a roadside business named to stop traffic,
a carpenter in the town of Busia, Kenya, makes about two coffins
per day. “That’s a bit less than it was three years ago,”
he says.
In this part of western Kenya more than one adult in three may carry
HIV. Whether the AIDS epidemic has peaked is uncertain, however,
because statistics are unreliable in a nation still in the throes
of denial and stigmatization about AIDS. Coffins for sale, and the
daily funerals that require them, are one of the few overt signs
that an epidemic is happening here.
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