Lifestories: Families in Crisis — Season 1, Episode 5: Blood Brothers: The Joey DiPaolo Story

Episode synopsis

After an 11 yr old boy who has HIV is asked by his friends to put their hands together and share blood Joey becomes faced with telling his friends and his community ,who don't accept Joey and shune him out keeping their sons/daughters away from him fearing that their childern will also catch the virus but at the end they're blood brothers the safe way.

About Lifestories: Families in Crisis

Lifestories: Families in Crisis is an American drama television series that premiered on HBO on August 1, 1992.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Secret Life of Mary Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic
• E2A Deadly Secret: The Robert Bierer Story
• E3Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story
• E4Gunplay: The Last Day in the Life of Brian Darling
• E6No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story
• E7More Than Friends: The Coming Out of Heidi Leiter
• E8Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story
• E9A Body to Die For: the Aaron Henry Story
• E10Brotherly Love: The Trevor Ferrell Story
• E11A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire Story
• E12Confronting Brandon: The Intervention of an Addict
• E13POWER: The Eddie Matos Story