Dozens of funerals take place every day in this sprawling cemetery in Ndola, Zambia's Copperbelt region.

Coffin-building is one of the fastest-growing businesses in this country, where 16 per cent of adults are HIV-positive. By the end of 2005 one million people - almost ten per cent of the entire population - will be HIV-positive. Most of them will be their family's breadwinners.