ABSTRACT

Based on a case study of a Catholic community-based NGO in an impoverished area of Kampala, this chapter illustrates how involvement in the scale-up of antiretroviral treatment (ARV/ART) may pose new questions for religious organizations concerning the social and spiritual aspects of suffering and healing. It is argued that the highly medicalized and individualized transnational governmentality surrounding ARV treatment provision in Uganda is contributing to a reconfiguration of Catholic ideals of holistic HIV/AIDS care.