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Safer Sex / STIs

1
Most major venereal diseases became curable – then along came AIDS, which remains incurable. But what does AIDS stand for?

1          Acquired Immunodefficiency Syndrome
2          All Illnesses Due to Sex
3          An Incurable Disease – Sexual
4          Auto-Induced Deep Synergy

2
In the UK, the number of HIV positive people (those infected with the HIV virus) is more than 41000. Approximately how many of these are gay or bisexual men?

1          Less than one in ten
2          Just over half
3          About 90%
4          Almost all

3
Perhaps the ‘safer sex’ message hasn’t been getting through. Around how many new cases of HIV infection were diagnosed in the UK in 2004?

1          There were hardly any
2          Under 1000
3          Around 7000
4          Almost half a million

4
London is home to almost 40000 diagnosed HIV+ people. How many more people in London are estimated to have HIV without knowing it?

1          None – it’s very obvious when you’re infected
2          A handful of those only recently infected
3          Somewhere between five and ten thousand
4          The same number again - 40000

5
The first warnings about HIV told us the virus was spread through ‘bodily fluids’. How helpful. Which of the following ‘bodily fluids’ can definitely not contain HIV?

1          Blood
2          Tears
3          Vomit
4          Semen

6
HIV is a devious virus. It hides in the parts of the body that are meant to guard against disease. Which part of the body does HIV specifically target?

1          The reproductive organs
2          The immune system
3          The brain and nervous system
4          The bone marrow

7
Over 100000 people were known to have the UK’s most common STI, chlamydia, in 2004. Which was the age group most at risk?

1          People younger than 16
2          Late teens and early twenty-somethings
3          Middle-aged people
4          The very old

8
You might want to slip and slide, but if you’re playing it safe, using condoms, which of the following will not degrade the latex, causing the condom to break?

1          Butter or marge
2          Silcone-based lubricant
3          Baby oil
4          Oil-based lubricant

9
Playing safe? Good. But which of the following sexually transmitted infections will condoms provide no protection against?

1          Hepatitis
2          Syphilis
3          Genital lice – or ‘crabs’
4          Gonorrhoea

10
According to a 2004 survey, how many people in the UK had had unprotected sex without knowing their sexual partner’s history?

1          Hardly any
2          About one in ten
3          Around a half
4          Well over 90%