Test your knowledge about HIV and AIDS

Part 1: Multiple Choice

  1. Approximately how many people in the world are living with HIV?
  2. 2,000,000
  3. 12,000,000
  4. 33,000,000
  1. How many people worldwide are newly infected with HIV each day?
  2. Less than 500
  3. About 1,700
  4. More than 3,000
  5. Almost 7,500
  1. In China, by the end of 2007 how many people are estimated to be living with HIV?
  2. Less than 200,000
  3. About 700,000
  4. More than one million
  1. In China, how many people were estimated to be newly infected with HIV in 2007?
  2. Less than 10,000
  3. About 50,000
  4. More than 100,000
  1. What is the main mode of transmission for new HIV infections in China?
  2. Unprotected heterosexual sex
  3. Men who have sex with men
  4. Injecting drug use
  5. Blood (plasma) donation
  6. Mother-to-child transmission
  1. In China, what percentage of the population would be willing to eat at the same place as a HIV positive person?
  2. Less than 10 percent
  3. About one quarter
  4. About one half
  5. More than 90 percent
  1. What does the acronym HIV stand for?
  2. Hemo-insufficiency virus
  3. Human immunodeficiency virus
  4. Human immobilization virus
  1. What does the acronym AIDS stand for?
  2. Active immunological disease syndrome
  3. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
  4. Acquired immunological derivative syndrome
  1. What percentage of people living with HIV, globally, do not actually know their HIV status?
  2. 85%
  3. 40%
  4. 5%
  5. 70%
  1. In China, what percentage of people living with HIV does not actually know their HIV status?
  2. 85%
  3. 40%
  4. 5%
  5. 70%
  1. What percentage of United Nations staff, globally, do we estimate to be living with HIV?
  2. 5.23%
  3. Less than 1%
  4. 1.54%

Part 2: Open responses

  1. List at least 3 ways that HIV may be transmitted.
  1. List at least 3 body fluids that may transmit HIV.

Part 3: True or false
True / False
  1. If a person has HIV, they will always develop AIDS.

  1. A person can get the same sexually transmitted infection more than once.

  1. AIDS can be cured if treated early.

  1. Many people with sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, do not have symptoms.

  1. HIV can be easily spread by using someone's personal belongings, such as a toothbrush or a razor.

  1. A person can look at someone and tell if he or she is infected with HIV or has AIDS.

  1. An effective vaccine is available to protect people from HIV infection.

  1. A person can be infected with HIV for 10 or more years without developing AIDS.

  1. Ear-piercing and tattooing with unsterilized instruments are possible ways of becoming infected with HIV.

  1. A person can get HIV by being bitten by a mosquito.

  1. A person can avoid getting HIV by eating well and exercising regularly.