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HIV /AIDS
Post-Test 2012
Name: _______________________________
Date: ______________
Score: __________
1. What year did the Florida Legislature mandate that all health care professionals be required to complete
CEUs on HIV/AIDS?
2. How many Americans have died from the AIDs virus?
3. Worldwide, how many people died from AIDS in 2010?
4. What spurred a massive research effort that led to greater understanding of AIDS?
5. Complete the following:
1 in _______ African Americans are HIV-positive
1 in _______ Hispanics are HIV-positive
1 in _______ whites are HIV- positive
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6. How many people in the following Florida counties are currently living with HIV/AIDS?
Broward County:
Duval County:
Lee County:
7. In 2009 the highest percentage of new HIV diagnoses was among those aged what?
8. Cumulatively speaking, how many HIV cases (NOT AIDS cases) were reported in 2010 for the state of
Florida?
9. What does TOPWA stand for?
10. What does the TOPWA program offer?
11. What age group comprises one of the fastest-growing segments of the AIDS population in Florida?
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12. True or False: A virus can be made up of both DNA and RNA? If false make it true
13. Why is HIV considered a “SLOW” virus?
14. Does HIV contain RNA or DNA?
15. What are the 3 H’s?
16. From 1991-1996, the estimated proportion of adult AIDS cases attributed to heterosexual contact each
year double from?
17. What enzyme does the HIV virus use to replicate once it invades another cell’s DNA?
18. What does the HIV virus attack specifically?
19. A normal, healthy, uninfected person has a CD4 count of what?
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20. A person with AIDS is identified as a CD4 count of what?
21. What is the outer coat of the HIV virus called?
22. Much of the research to develop a vaccine against HIV has been focused on what?
23. Name three of the nine antiviral drugs approved in the U.S.?
24. A protein encoded by the ________ gene allows mRNA to be transferred from the nucleus to the
cytoplasm.
25. What percentage of HIV patients progressed to AIDS within the first two years following their infection?
26. 90% of persons exposed to HIV infected blood became infected by what means?
27. If HIV+ mothers are on HIV drug therapy, there is a ____% rate of transmitting the virus on to their
child?
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28. Other than blood samples what are the two other ways an HIV test may be performed?
29. Name two different types of antibody tests that are used to diagnose HIV infection.
30. Initiation of HIV drug therapy is based on two tests, what are they?
31. Name the three classes of drugs that have improved the survival and quality of life for people with
HIV/AIDS?
32. What does HAART stand for and what does it mean?
33. How do the Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors work?
34. What is an opportunistic infection?
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35. Give three other types of opportunistic infections:
36. The CDC recommends that post-exposure prophylaxis begin within how many hours?
37. Name four factors that increase the risk of HIV transmission?
38. What percentage of needle stick / cut exposures will lead to HIV infection?
39. What does O.P.I.M. stand for?
40. Name the four steps that a healthcare professional should take once an injury and possible exposure has
occurred to reduce the chances of contracting HIV.
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