HIV / AIDS Course
1)
What is HIV?
2)
What is AIDS?
3)
In the U.S., most people with HIV do not develop AIDS because taking HIV medicine every day as prescribed stops the progression of the disease. True or False?
4)
HIV testing…
5)
HIV can be transmitted through all of the following except:
6)
In the United States, the two most common ways of contracting HIV is through:
7)
People with HIV who take HIV medicine daily as prescribed and get and keep an undetectable viral load have effectively no risk of transmitting HIV to an HIV-negative partner through sex. True or False?
8)
Stage 2: Clinical Latency is described as a stage that/when…
9)
Approximately ______ million people in the U.S. are living with HIV today. About ___ percent of them (____) are unaware they are infected.
10)
The population most affected by HIV is/are:
11)
_______________ account for a higher proportion of new HIV diagnoses and people living with HIV, compared to other races/ethnicities.
12)
Viral suppression is when:
13)
Undetectable viral load is:
14)
Another (Other) prevention benefit(s) of taking HIV medication to achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load:
15)
What is PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis?
16)
What is PEP, or post-exposure prophylaxis?
17)
If you are prescribed PEP, you will need to take the HIV medicines every day for ______.
18)
The HIV-negative person can try to protect themselves from HIV by all of the following except:
19)
The HIV-positive person can try to prevent transmitting HIV to an HIV-negative partner by all of the following except:
20)
It is recommended that sexually active gay and bisexual men who have more that one partner should be tested ____.
21)
Treatment guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommend that a person living with HIV begin ART, antiretroviral therapy, _________.
22)
Tips that may help a person take every dose of their HIV medication every day include:
23)
One of the most common mental health conditions that people living with HIV face is ________.
24)
Some of the most common OIs, opportunistic infections, in people living with HIV in the U.S. are all of the following except:
25)
OIs are less common now than in the early days of HIV and AIDS when there was no treatment. Today’s HIV medicine (called antiretroviral therapy or ART) reduce the amount of HIV in a person’s body and keep the immune system stronger. However, some people with HIV still develop OI’s for all of the following reasons except:
26)
Some of the ways people living with HIV can reduce their risk of getting an OI include all of the following except:
27)
People living with HIV who are also infected with another STD are ______ likely as others living with HIV to spread HIV through sexual contact.
28)
Gynecological problems are common among women living with HIV. Some of the issues women may experience include all of the following except:
29)
Today, thanks to improvements in treatment, __________ of people living with diagnosed HIV in the United States are aged 50 or older.
30)
Even though there are benefits to physical activity, HIV positive clients should be encouraged not to exercise or engage in physical activity because of the risks involved. True or False?
31)
Before conducting any assessment or treatment, therapists and counselors should reassess their personal attitudes and experiences in working with HIV infected clients. Several ways in which to do this include all of the following except:
32)
Countertransference is:
33)
_________ involves actions or words that imply or state that the presence of a gay man or lesbian hurts or discredits a social system. The purpose is to hurt, demean, intimidate, or control, and to stop social change or acceptance of lesbians and gays with the social system.
34)
Burnout often is referred to as “bereavement overload.” Unlike fatigue, burnout does not resolve after a given amount of rest and recreation. To help prevent burnout, agencies may include all of the following strategies except:
35)
Treatment providers must examine two essential factors when working with culturally, racially, or ethnically different populations; _____ and ______.
36)
A sudden increase in the use of ____________ by gay and bisexual men has become a matter of grave concern because the route of administration is injection. Combined with its disinhibiting and sexually stimulating effects, gay male injectors are at extremely high risk for HIV exposure.
Benzodiazepines, “bars,” “blues,” “planks,” or “zannies”
Opioids, “brown sugar,” “horse,” “junk,” or “smack”
Methamphetamine, “speed,” “crystal,” “ice,” or “crank”
Hallucinogens, “acid,” “boomers,” “dots,” or “tab”
37)
Guidelines for working with transgender clients include all of the following except:
38)
Good practices include reminding HIV positive women that it is better for the client, for unborn children and society as a whole that HIV positive women should not have more children. True or False?
39)
All of the following are important statistics related to the U.S. Hispanic population that affect how outreach, prevention, and treatment planning should be conducted except.
40)
The counseling of ill and dying clients should be supportive and nonconfrontational, addressing issues relevant to the client’s illness at a pace determined by the client. It is optimal, if possible to begin a discussion of the client’s future, including death, _______________.
