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This article responds to a recent call for detailed analyses of research processes that link the intellectual resources of the academy with communities and popular movements. Our discussion focuses on our experiences with the Making Care Visible (MCV) Project, a community-based, qualitative research initiative conducted in Toronto, Canada, that explored the work people living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) do to look after their health. This article focuses on the doing of the MCV Project and, in particular, on our use of the concept 'health work'. Our central aim is to demonstrate how the concept methodologically grounded the politics of our research efforts at various stages of our work. To this end, we describe how we used the concept in starting our research, selecting participants and carrying out interviews. Drawing on interview excerpts from Making Care Visible: Antiretroviral Combination Therapy and the Health Work …