Thinking Outside the Box: Sonke in Kamva

Lina’s cake habit is certainly not helping her lose weight, something she desperately wants. “I must be the only person not getting skinny from HIV. It’s not fair,” she tells me as she unwraps the giant piece of cake covered in sticky sweet frosting from its shrink-wrapped styrofoam tray. We’re sitting across from each other in the back room of a doctor’s office, huddled around a paraffin heater topped with a tin of boiling water. Kamva winters may not be snow-laden, but it gets cold up here in the mountains without indoor heat. Africa isn’t always warm. The office in