Understanding HIV: Knowledge Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the anabolic steroid Oxandrolone was granted orphan drug status in treatment of alcoholic hepatitis, Turner's syndrome and HIV wasting syndrome.

according to (RED), providing health-restoring antiretroviral drugs to HIV positive people in Africa, as described in the documentary The Lazarus Effect, costs US$0.40 per person per day.

the U.S. Federal Government's largest provider of HIV/AIDS services, the Ryan White Care Act, is named after Ryan White, a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana middle school in 1985 for having AIDS.

the Visna virus, a retrovirus that causes encephalitis and chronic pneumonitis in sheep, is used as a model system for HIV infection.

the newly spreading practice in East Africa of flashblood, injecting oneself with blood of another heroin user to get high, has been called "the most effective way of infecting yourself with HIV".

Inventing the AIDS Virus, written by molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, argues that AIDS is not infectious and that HIV is an unrelated passenger virus.

Moscow Gay Pride has been described as "satanic" and likely to increase the spread of HIV/AIDS by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov (pictured).

Michael Jackson's "Gone Too Soon" was dedicated to the memory of Ryan White, a teenager who died following a battle with HIV/AIDS.

Czech scientist Antonín Holý cooperated on the development of important antiretroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV and hepatitis B.

NBC network executive Perry Lafferty produced the 1985 television movie An Early Frost, one of the first dramatic films to deal with the subject of HIV / AIDS.

Gideon Byamugisha was the first religious leader in Africa to publicly announce that he was HIV positive.

Jeannette Kagame, the current First Lady of Rwanda, works to help victims of the Rwandan Genocide and HIV/AIDS.

Botswana international footballer Donald Thobega was involved in the Test For Life campaign, which encourages supporters to get tested for HIV and AIDS.

Understanding HIV: Knowledge Quiz

1 [161] Harald zur Hausen also shared the Prize for his discovery that human papilloma virus leads to ________, but Gallo was left out.

2 ________ is the major mode of HIV transmission.

3 Even if patients go to their doctors or a hospital, they will often be misdiagnosed as having one of the more common ________ with the same symptoms.

4 These individuals mostly die from opportunistic infections or ________ associated with the progressive failure of the immune system.

5 Major psychosocial issues, such as poor access to medical care, inadequate social supports, psychiatric disease and ________ contribute to non-adherence.

6 [155][156] The closest relative of HIV-2 is SIV(agm), a virus of the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys), an Old World monkey of Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, and ________.

7 [82] The presence of FEZ-1, which occurs naturally in ________, is believed to prevent the infection of cells by HIV.

8 The Nef protein (p27) down-regulates ________ (the major viral receptor), as well as the MHC class I and class II molecules.

9 These are transported to the ________ of the host cell where gp41 anchors the gp120 to the membrane of the infected cell.

10 [117] Current HAART options are combinations (or "cocktails") consisting of at least three drugs belonging to at least two types, or "classes," of ________ agents.

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