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Group 3- HIV

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
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1.

Do you know how the diagnosis of HIV is made? Select the incorrect answer.

a)

With a blood test 

  

b)

With a urine test 

  

c)

With a saliva exam 

  

d)

With a rapid test on a drop of blood 

2.

Who do you think is at risk of becoming infected with HIV? 

a)

If you comply with treatment every day, control yourself and achieve undetectable viral loads (fail to detect the virus in your blood), you have almost the same life expectancy as A person who is not infected. 

b)

Achieving undetectable viral load improves the quality of life of the infected person. 

c)

A person with A maintained undetectable viral load does not transmit hiv. 

d)

Pregnant woman with undetectable viral load during pregnancy and delivery does not transmit the infection to her child. 

e)

All the above are correct. 

3.

How the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV is NOT transmitted? 

a)

In all types of sexual relations without protection (without a condom). 

  

b)

Sharing blood-contaminated syringe needles.

c)

Through saliva.

d)

From mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding .

4.

To prevent HIV infection, which of the following methods should we use? 

a)

Female and/or male condom/condom 

b)

  

Using sterile needles and syringes 

c)

  

Taking antiretroviral drugs as pre-exposure prophylaxis 

  

d)

Taking antiretroviral drugs as post-exposure prophylaxis 

e)

  

All the above are correct 

5.

What does antiretroviral therapy do?

a)

It cures HIV

b)

It prevents HIV transmission

c)

It supresses HIV disemination in the body

6.

Is HIV the same as AIDS?

a)

Yes, HIV is the medical acronym used to name the disease AIDS

b)

No, in both situations the HIV virus is present, but HIV does not imply developing AIDS

7.

Can mosquitoes or other insects transmit HIV?

a)

Yes, any insect can absorb the virus from the blood of a human and transmit it to another when biting him.

b)

No, the amount of virus you ingest from a human is not enough to transmit it to a healthy human

8.

The sexual transmission of HIV can be reduced by:

a)

The correct use of condoms when having sexual intercourse.

b)

Abstaining from having sexual relations.

c)

Maintaining faithful relationships with an equally faithful uninfected partner and without risk behaviors.

d)

All of the above.

9.

What symptoms occur when someone gets infected with HIV?

a)

The infection causes intermittent headaches, loss of appetite and diarrhea.

b)

Usually there are no symptoms, although in some cases you may have something similar to mononucleosis, fever, rash, joint pain or swollen lymph nodes.

c)

Sequential kidney failure, digestive problems, inflammation of the pleura and arterial decompensation.

d)

Red spots appear on some parts of the body, as well as gastroenteritis, vomiting and inflammation of the extremities of the body.

10.

What is the window period?

a)

The period that a person infected with HIV has to have sexual intercourse without risk of infecting another.

b)

It is the time that elapses between the risk practice and HIV infection.

c)

It is the time elapsed between infection and the appearance of detectable antibodies.

d)

It is the effective time of treatment against HIV.

11.

Current HIV treatments can achieve…

a)

Cure the disease

b)

Delay AIDS a few years.

c)

Prevent the development of parallel diseases, especially sexually transmitted diseases

or STIs.

d)

Turn the disease into a chronic disease.