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1 & 2: Two reasons 50+ women are at risk for HIV/AIDS are:

Menopause
Single again and starting to date.
Choosing health care as a new career field.
Blood transfusions in their 20s and 30s
Increase in number of lesbians in this age group.
Women donate blood two times as often as men.

3. The most recent CDC statistics indicate the number of newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS in women increased approximately ______% last year.

50%
25%
15%
75%

4. Two-thirds of women who contract HIV do so:

Caring for children and grandchildren with HIV/AIDS and contracted the virus through them.
By sharing needles.
Because they had unprotected sex with infected partners.
Through a blood transfusion between 1978-1985.

5. HIV/AIDS is being transmitted to women through heterosexual sex. According to the CDC, which age group is contracting the virus thru sex rather than other means 75% of the time?

6. In the little story at the beginning the article, we think George became infected with the HIV virus through:

Intravenous drug use in his younger, wilder days.
A male partner. He was bisexual.
A blood transfusion.
We don't know.

7 & 8. After studying the CDC and HIH information which lists the estimated number of AIDS cases form women by race/ethnicity, which two races are following an identical pattern of incidence of AIDS among women. (list two answers)

9. According to the CDC bar graph, which region has the highest number of AIDS cases?

Northeast
Mid West
West
South

10. New creams and gels which women can use during intercourse to protect themselves against HIV are called:

Cortosteriod drugs
Antiretroviral therapy
Microbicides
Fungicides

11 & 12. Women with HIV are extremely high risk for: (choose 2)

yeast infections
tuberculosis
other STD's
malaria

13. From your review of the websites for the CDC, NIH, NIAID, WIHS, and IPM - which one gave you the most information on clinical research for the newest HIV/AIDS drugs?

14. These symptoms could be signs of HIV/AIDS or aging: lack of energy, weight loss, abdominal cramps and short-term memory loss.

True
False

15. More white women than any other race are contracting HIV/AIDS.

True
False

16. HIV is a virus which kills a type of white blood cell in the host known as DD8 cell.

True
False

17. AIDS is the most advanced stage of HIV infections for which there is no cure.

True
False

18. HIV infection always leads to AIDS

True
False

19. According to the CDC and NIH, sites women in the 35-44 age group, who engage in injection drug use, have the highest HIV infection rate.

True
False

20. The annual number of new HIV infections in the U.S. since 2005 are approximately 40,000 per year

True
False