title: The priest's soldiers: HIV therapies, health identities, and forced encampment in northern Uganda.
abstract: In this article, I analyze how antiretroviral therapy and associated HIV support programs engendered HIV-based health identities in displacement camps in conflict-affected northern Uganda. Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork I conducted between 2006 and 2009, I argue that these health identities were intimately tied to the congested physical and social conditions of the displacement camp. I argue, too, that the interactions between therapeutic practices and biosociality, along with the social observation and labeling of people with HIV/AIDS, produced new health identities. Furthermore, the labels applied to people with HIV-and adopted by them-reflected a local repertoire of meanings associating HIV/AIDS with militarism, Christian missions, camp life, and humanitarianism: thus people living with HIV/AIDS were labeled 'the priest's soldiers.'
authors.affiliation: African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. matthew@migration.org.za
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wilhelm-Solomon
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D060432:Anthropology, Medical; D018501:Antirheumatic Agents; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology; D008921:Religious Missions; D057545:Social Stigma; D014454:Uganda
chemical_list: D018501:Antirheumatic Agents