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Chapter 7
Preventing Diseases Knowing the Truth About HIV and AIDS

Answer true or false for each statement below. After completing the inventory, click on the How Did I Rate? button to display a printable version of your answers and to find out your score.

      
  1.Direct sexual contact is the only way to spread HIV.  
       a  TRUE      b  FALSE        
      
  2.At this time, there is no cure for AIDS.  
       a  TRUE      b  FALSE        
      
  3.AIDS is an HIV infection combined with severe immune system problems.  
       a  TRUE      b  FALSE        
      
  4.HIV can spread through contaminated moisture droplets in the air, like other viral infections such as colds and influenza.  
       a  TRUE      b  FALSE        
      
  5.Never sharing needles or any objects that break the skin is one way to protect yourself from HIV.  
       a  TRUE      b  FALSE        
      
  6.HIV attacks the immune system and damages or destroys the cells needed to fight off infections.  
       a  TRUE      b  FALSE        
      
  7.Shaking hands with a person infected with AIDS puts you at risk for catching HIV.  
       a  TRUE      b  FALSE        
      
  8.Only drug addicts develop AIDS.  
       a  TRUE      b  FALSE        
      
  9.HIV can spread through body fluids such as blood, breast milk, semen, and vaginal fluid.  
       a  TRUE      b  FALSE        
      
  10.Donating blood does NOT put you at risk for catching HIV.  
       a  TRUE      b  FALSE        

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