HIV Basics
HIV stands for this.
What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus?
The stage of HIV in which people are the most infectious.
What is the acute (primary) stage?
Hepatitis means inflammation of this organ.
What is the liver?
A bodily fluid that can spread HIV.
What is blood?
A major risk factor for both HIV and Hepatitis C.
What is sharing needles?
AIDS stands for this
What is Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome?
The stage of HIV that may have no symptoms and can last years.
What is the clinical latency stage?
The virus that does NOT have a vaccine.
What is Hepatitis C?
HIV is NOT spread by sharing this eating tool.
What are utensils?
Having many sexual partners increases risk for this virus.
What is HIV?
This body system is attacked by HIV.
What is the immune system?
this treatment helps stop HIV from attaching to white blood cells.
What is antiretroviral therapy (ART)?
Hepatitis C spreads mainly through this type of contact.
What is blood contact?
Sharing needles increases risk for BOTH of these diseases.
What are HIV and Hepatitis C?
Getting tattoos in unclean places increases risk for this disease.
What is Hepatitis C?
The term used when HIV passes from one person to another.
What is transmission?
When HIV levels are very low, it is described using this word.
What is undetectable?
About this percentage of Hepatitis C cases become chronic.
What is 75–85 percent?
This is NOT a way Hepatitis C spreads.
What is hugging?
Poverty and lack of health care are examples of this.
What are social determinants of health?
HIV is NOT spread through hugging, kissing, or this place.
What are public washrooms?
Untreated HIV usually progresses to AIDS in about this many years
What is about ten years?
A simple test used to diagnose Hepatitis C
What is a blood test?
Babies may get Hepatitis C from this person
Who is the mother?
A medical treatment that increases Hepatitis C risk.
What is dialysis?