CH.5 HIV

A person infected with HIV can be asymptomatic for up to how many years?

10

The first case of AIDS reported in the US was in:

1981

HIV is the disease that causes:

AIDS

HIV targets which cells:

CD 4 cells

This is a rare skin cancer that auto immune suppressed people sometimes contract:

Kaposi's sarcoma

The single best means of preventing becoming infected with HIV is:

abstain from any sexual contact and intravenous drug use

Who is the greatest risk of becoming infected with HIV?

anyone who has sex with an infected person

In 1985 HIV testing became available to screen the nation's blood supply so that individuals would not contract the disease through

blood transfusions

Which disease is not part of the ABC of the AIDS virus?

hepatitis C

What does HIV stand for?

human immunodeficiency virus

When a person wants to be tested for HIV antibodies, what must be obtained from them?

informed consent

All are ways that a person CANNOT acquire HIV except:

needle stick

In most work situations transmission is likely to occur because of accidental:

puncture from needles

All are early symptoms of contracting HIV except:

rash

What is the most efficient means of sexual transmission of HIV?

rectal sexual contact

Which of the following body fluids does not transmit HIV?

saliva

HIV is transmitted from human to human by:

sexual contact and blood to blood contact

An individual who has tested positive for HIV will be diagnosed with full blown AIDS when:

they have a T-cell count under 200 per milliliter

When a mother passes on the HIV virus via breastfeeding or birth it is known as:

vertical transmission