Who can get HIV?
How do you get HIV?
Stopping the spread of HIV
Are you or others at risk?
Signs and symptoms of HIV
Testing for HIV
How HIV works in the body
The facts about HIV
Questions for your healthcare provider
Questions for your healthcare provider
Starting treatment
Treatment plans and goals
Tips for taking your medicines
Tips for taking your medicines
Are your medicines working?
Side effects of treatment
Tips for dealing with side effects
Tips for dealing with side effects
Treatment breaks
Switching medicines
Paying for treatment
Public assistance
Private health insurance
Patient assistance programs
The truth about treatment
Talking about HIV
Telling your partner
Telling your family
Telling your friends
Telling your coworkers
Healthy eating
What is a healthy diet?
Staying active
Depression and HIV
Women and HIV
Living with pets
What is HIV
Testing for HIV
How HIV works in the body
Preventing infections
Around the house
Cooking and food safety for people living with HIV
Cooking and food safety for people living with HIV
Giving everyday care
Taking care of the caregiver
Herpes and other STDs
Genital herpes
Syphilis
Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Trichomoniasis
Genital warts and HPV
Depression and other nervous system diseases
Depression and other nervous system diseases
Depression
Toxoplasmosis
Cryptococcal meningitis
Peripheral neuropathy
GI system problems
Diarrhea
Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Oral thrush
Diabetes and other metabolic disorders
Diabetes and other metabolic disorders
Diabetes
Wasting Syndrome
Lipodystrophy
Heart disease
Kidney disease
Liver disease
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Cirrhosis
Pneumonia and other respiratory diseases
Pneumonia and other respiratory diseases
Pneumonia
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Overview of the epidemic
What are HIV and AIDS?
HIV/AIDS on a global scale
HIV/AIDS in the United States
The changing face of HIV/AIDS
Section quiz
From HIV to AIDS
The biology of HIV
How HIV makes people sick
After HIV infects cells
How HIV is diagnosed
HIV stages and symptoms
Advanced HIV/clinical AIDS
Section quiz
Transmission of HIV
Overview of HIV transmission
Conditions for HIV transmission
Conditions for HIV transmission
Myths about HIV transmission
Sexual transmission of HIV
Drug-associated transmission of HIV
Drug-associated transmission of HIV
Vertical transmission of HIV
Transfusion, transplant, and artificial insemination HIV risk
Transfusion, transplant, and artificial insemination HIV risk
HIV transmission in healthcare settings
HIV transmission in healthcare settings
Section quiz
Correlates of HIV risk
Biological risk factors for HIV
Biological risk factors for HIV
Psychological risk factors for HIV
Psychological risk factors for HIV
Demographic risk factors for HIV
Demographic risk factors for HIV
Behavioral risk factors for HIV
Behavioral risk factors for HIV
Section quiz
HIV/AIDS treatment
Treatment advances in HIV/AIDS
Treatment advances in HIV/AIDS
Slowing down HIV
Successful antiretroviral therapy
Successful antiretroviral therapy
HIV treatment success factors
HIV-related complications
Section quiz
Living with HIV/AIDS
Psychological disorders in HIV
Psychological disorders in HIV
The psychology of HIV/AIDS therapy
The psychology of HIV/AIDS therapy
Uncertainties of HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS-related grief
Stigma and discrimination
Section quiz
Positive prevention
The need for positive prevention
The need for positive prevention
Positive prevention target populations
Positive prevention target populations
Prevention goals and barriers
Positive prevention strategies
Positive prevention strategies
Prevention via antiretroviral therapy
Prevention via antiretroviral therapy
Section quiz
Our commitment
Positive action
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Test what you’ve learned in this section of the Web site. Answer the questions below and get an explanation of the correct answer.
Question 1: True or False: There is no danger in occasionally missing a dosage of HIV medication.
True
False
Correct Answer: False
When people do not take the correct medicines in the correct doses, at the correct times, the levels of the drugs in their bodies drop, allowing HIV to multiply. The more HIV multiplies, the more likely it is to mutate into a form that the drugs are not designed to combat. When this happens, HIV is said to be resistant to a drug. Because there is a limited number of anti-HIV drugs, people quickly run out of drugs that work against their HIV disease.
Question 2: True or False: There is a danger in taking drugs to which a strain of HIV is already resistant.
True
False
Correct Answer: True
Continuing to take drugs to which a strain of HIV is already resistant actually increases the speed with which the drug-resistant strain multiplies.
Question 3: Fill in the blank. People with HIV first develop mild symptoms of opportunistic infections ___ years on average after exposure to HIV if they are not taking antiretroviral medicines.
2–3
5–6
7–8
10 or more
Correct Answer: 7-8
HIV+ people first develop mild symptoms of opportunistic infections 7–8 years (on average) after exposure to HIV if they are not taking antiretroviral medicines.
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