Exam 8: Sexually Transmitted Infections/Diseases

Janet is at a parent meeting where parents are debating whether or not they should allow their children to get the HPV vaccine.Janet's daughter is in the fourth grade.She is worried that giving her child the vaccine means that she condones sex.Tell her why the vaccine is given to children between the ages of nine and twelve.

Which of the following is an effective communication strategy that can be used when speaking with one's partner about sexually transmitted infections?

Reza is diagnosed with HIV and is currently taking a combination of several medications to help delay the onset of AIDS.As a result,his viral load has significantly lowered.Reza is most likely taking which of the following types of medications?

Gino has syphilis.Which of the following might have been the first symptom he noticed?

Certain types of the human papilloma virus cause ________ cancer.

What are antiherpetics?

Particularly with women,many STIs are ________.

What percentage of people who know that they have HIV continue to practice unsafe sex and do not tell their partners about their HIV status?

________ are a group of viral,bacterial,and other infections that are spread primarily by sexual behaviors.

Programs that teach teens only abstinence have been shown to ________.

Researchers continue to examine whether there is a relationship between sex and HIV.Who is at greater risk of contracting HIV through heterosexual intercourse?

At least how many strains of hepatitis are found in humans?

In Erica's health class,she learned that the incubation period for hepatitis B is ________.

The primary symptom of the genital herpes infection is ________.

Josie contracted hepatitis by sexual transmission.Most likely,Josie has which of the following strains of hepatitis?

Approximately ________ of persons who are currently infected with HSV-2 do not know they are infected because they have never observed any signs of the virus.

The CDC estimates that ________ million people in the United States alone are currently infected with genital HPV.

What does the current research say about the transmission of herpes simplex virus type 2?

Which of the following are the prodromal symptoms of genital herpes?

Although HIV and AIDS were not recognized until the early 1980s when the infection first appeared in the United States,current research suggests they have been present in humans since the ________.