In March 1998 a 24-year-old woman entered the United Kingdom from Uganda. She used a false name and a false passport. She was extremely ill and within a couple of days was admitted to Guy's Hospital, where she was diagnosed with full-blown Aids and a cluster of Aids-related illnesses including Kaposi's sarcoma. She had not known she had Aids and did not come here for medical treatment, but as a refugee. She had been kidnapped and held captive by the Lord's Resistance Army for two years, then by another rebel group, the National Resistance Movement. She had been severely mistreated and repeatedly raped.

LRB 21 July 2005 | PDF Download