ABSTRACT

This chapter is about the pediatric HIV/AIDS case managers of the Brooklyn Pediatric AIDS Network (Network), 1 , 2 and the stories they tell about working with sick and dying children and grieving family members. These stories are told in the Network's unique bereavement support group, a safe and empathic milieu for case managers to relate what it means "to l ive" with HIV/AIDS, not their own illness, but that of the children and the families with whom they work.