Your Names Are Written in Heaven

In the 1990s, a young Ugandan Catholic nurse named Rose Busingye began working in the slums of Kampala with the many women there suffering from HIV/AIDS. Many of them were refugees from civil war in the north, having been raped, beaten, forced to kill in order not to be killed, to steal children in the hope of one day returning to see their own children.

Even though Rose brought food and medicine to them, she often discovered that the women had not taken their medications, so sunk were they...