UK: House of Lords upholds deportation order.

On 5 May 2005, the House of Lords rejected a 30-year old HIV-positive woman's appeal of her deportation order. The woman had argued that expelling her to Uganda, a country where access to HIV medication and medical care was uncertain, constituted a violation of guarantees against inhuman treatment in the European Convention (the Convention). The House of Lords ruled that deporting an HIV-positive asylum seeker is not a violation of the Convention absent "exceptional circumstances."