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 NAPASHA, Malawi (AP) - It's so quiet you can hear scrawny hens pecking at the dust. A few ragged children peer timidly from the shadow of their mud huts but show no interest in playing. Beyond them lie barren cornfields, abandoned to the blistering heat.
The despair is unmistakable in Napasha, a village in the southern African nation of Malawi where an AIDS epidemic has compounded the vicious cycle of poverty, hunger and disease.
"Our fields are idle because there is nobody to work them," says Toby Solomon, a local commissioner.
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