The Training of Trainers Manual - UNFPA

Handout 3 • HIV/AIDS Quiz 3
Questions
1. What does AIDS stand for
2. What does HIV stand for
3. Can you get HIV from kissing
4. ‘You can catch AIDS from sharing infected needles’. Is there anything wrong with this statement
Answer yes, no, or I don’t know. If you answer yes, explain what is wrong with the statement.
5. What does it mean if someone is diagnosed as HIV-antibody positive (HIV+)
6. How can HIV be transmitted from mother to child
7. In the context of testing for HIV, what do we mean by the ‘window period’
8. The HIV virus cannot survive outside the body. True or false
9. Why does anal sex carry more risk of HIV transmission than other kinds of sex
10. You cannot get HIV infection from giving blood with sterile syringes. True or false
Correct answers
1. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
2. Human immunodeficiency virus
3. Kissing only carries a risk if there is an exchange of blood from an HIV+ person to his or her partner.
This can occur when the skin or mucous membranes in or around the mouth are damaged.
4. The statement is wrong: you contract HIV (the virus), but not AIDS.
5. It means that the white blood cells have produced antibodies in reaction to the presence of HIV in
the bloodstream. It proves that the person is infected with HIV. However, the antibodies cannot kill
the virus!
6. During pregnancy, delivery, and breastfeeding.
7. HIV antibodies usually take between two and three months to appear in the bloodstream. This
period is called the ‘window period’, during which an infected person will test negative, even if she
or he has the virus and is infectious.
8. True.
9. The rectum bleeds easily, allowing blood to mix with semen carrying HIV.
10. True.
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