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Which of the following people has one or more risk factors for hepatitis C?

a forty-year-old alcoholic woman with stomach pain

an infant born to a mother who does not have hepatitis C

a fifty-five-year-old male who received a blood transfusion in 1985

a twenty-five-year-old nurse who uses gloves each time she works with patients

Which of the following individuals are at risk for contracting HIV? Check all that apply.

a male with multiple sex partners

a friend of a person diagnosed with AIDS

a healthcare worker taking blood samples from patients at a clinic

the brother of a seventeen-year-old female who has just tested HIV-positive

If a person gets tested for HIV and the results are negative, why might that person wait a few weeks and get tested again?

HIV tests have a high false negative rate.

Most people are exposed to HIV on a daily basis.

The person’s test results were most likely switched with someone else’s.

HIV antibodies take several weeks to develop enough to be detected.

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