BBH 101 Exam 4 Sexual Behavior I Review Questions and Correct Answers
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BBH 101
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BBH 101
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) Infections that are spread primarily through person-to-person sexual contact
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) A life-threatening disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in which the body's CD4 lymphocytes are destroyed, leaving the v...
BBH 101 Exam 4 Sexual Behavior I
Review Questions and Correct Answers
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) ✅Infections that are spread primarily through
person-to-person sexual contact
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) ✅A life-threatening disease caused by
the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in which the body's CD4 lymphocytes are
destroyed, leaving the victim vulnerable to opportunistic infections
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) ✅- The retrovirus that causes AIDS
- HIV injects its genome into lymphocytes so that it reproduces when the cells are
activated
A brief history of AIDS: In the beginning ✅A primate virus that possibly originated in
west-central Africa and spread to humans when an animal handler was bitten
- 1980: 55 young men diagnosed with Kaposi's Sarcoma, a rare cancer of blood vessels
serving the skin, mucous membranes and other glands in the body
- 1984: HIV virus is isolated
- Late 1980s: once limited to white, gay men, AIDS begins to threaten general
population
- 1991: 100,000th victim / 1993: 200,000th victim
- 1994: 400,000 cases worldwide
- 2006: 65 million HIV infections/25 million deaths
Epidemic ✅A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a
particular time
Pandemic ✅A worldwide epidemic such as AIDS
Global Causes of Death by Income Group ✅Imagine a diverse, representative group of
1000 people from around the world who died in one year
Of those people,
(a) 163 would have come from low-income countries (where HIV/AIDS is the 3rd-
leading cause of death),
(b) 677 from middle income countries (where HIV/AIDS is the 6th-leading cause of
death), and
(c) 159 from high-income countries (where HIV/AIDS is not in the top 10 causes of
death).
The Epidemiology of AIDS ✅In U.S., AIDS has taken greatest toll on young men,
particularly African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans
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