Simon has an Aids-related cancer, diagnosed while here on business. He's applied to stay on compassionate grounds. And it's this attitude that's helping spread the virus. You'd rather keep something to ourselves even if it's a problem. Simon contacted a London charity set up to help Africans here with HIV and Aids, called Blackliners.
Nobody really knows where the infection is occurring.
We're only told in the official breakdowns that it's in people who've lived in or visited Africa. The big question is whether people know they're HIV positive before they come to Britain. I very much doubt that. From our experience the people who come to apply for asylum on the whole are escaping persecution and war. Newham General Hospital in east London.