Activity 93

What does the acronym AIDS stand for? What virus causes AIDS?

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome HIV causes AIDS

Explain how HIV invades the immune system causing it to become less capable of fighting infections and cancer?

HIV attacks the T cells make the immune system weaker.

What effect does abstinence from sexua activity have on the risk of contracting HIV infection?

If you choose not to have sex, you reduce the risk of HIV.

why is HIV and progressive infection?

It destroys the cells of the immune system over time.

How is the risk of HIV infection related to the number of people with whom a person is sexually active?

Risk of HIV increases with number of sexual partners.

What are opportunistic infections?

they occur in people who have weakened immune system over time.

During the late 1990s, did the number of new cases of AIDS increase or decrease in the United States population as a whole?

AIDS cases declined

Name the four human body fluids that are known to transmit HIV from an infected person to an uninfected person.

1.) Blood 2.) Semen 3.) Vaginal Fluids 4.) Breast Milk

list 3 high-risk behaviors or situations that increase the risk of HIV

1.) sexual intercourse 2.) sharing needles 3.) mother to baby

Describe three ways a pregnant female who is infected with HIV can pass the virus to her baby.

1.) through the umbilical cord 2.) during birth 3.) breast feeding