ing rituals, health needs, funeral arrangements, the impact of multiple loss, burnout, and counseling. The return rate was about 60 percent, said to be sufficiently high for representativeness.
Findings were said to indicate that a wide range and diversity of responses exist in these organizations to help members deal with HIV/AIDS grief and loss and that, in most cases, the AIDS organization's reaction to these issues has been to develop and implement policies that are specifically tailored for the organization's predominant client population. However, it was noted that there was a significant lack of experience or ongoing training in the area of grief and loss and low levels of staff support in most of the surveyed organizations.
Another area of the research on loss and grief associated with AIDS and HIV has been to examine the general experience of HIV/AIDS patients looking for factors, variables, and other phenomena that appear to assist with coping. For example, Richards and Fol
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