MIC 130 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Is there a vaccine for HIV? - ✔✔No, one is in trial. Rapid mutation rate of HIV is
making vaccine development difficult
✔✔is there a cure for HIV? - ✔✔Not currently, but antiviral drugs can be used to slow
down progression.
✔✔GRID - ✔✔Gay related immuno deficiency
✔✔What groups were the 4 H's of aids? - ✔✔Homosexuals, Haitians, Hemophiliac,
heroine users
✔✔What triggered attention to AIDS? - ✔✔-That it was a disease that impacted the Gay
community "gay cancer"
-Did not know what this was caused by
-negative attitudes/ stigma
-sexually transmitted
-Risk for cancers: Kaposi' Sarcoma skin cancer, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and
cervical cancer.
, ✔✔Ryan White - ✔✔A hemophiliac who caught HIV through a blood transfusion.
Changed perceptions about HIV
"caught in an acceptable way"
Went to court so he could go to school
✔✔Robert Gallo - ✔✔One of the scientists credited with discovering the cause of the
disease
-1983
-Thought it was similar to T-lymphotropic viruses that they isolated
✔✔Rock Hudson - ✔✔American actor; made people realize that anyone could get aids
-died of aids was one of the first celebrities to die
✔✔Luc Montagnier - ✔✔French researcher who also worked on discovering AIDS
showed that the core protiens of this virus were immunologically different from those of
HTLV-I
✔✔Origin of HIV - ✔✔-1900-1940 HIV enters humans multiple timess from chimps in W.
Central Africa
-HAART new HIV drug in 1990s used antretroviral therapy
✔✔Aids activism - ✔✔Protesting for human rights, wanted increased funding for
research, fast-track drug approval
✔✔HIV + vs AIDS - ✔✔HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that may cause
an infection. AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a condition
✔✔Aids prevention - ✔✔Behavioral change: Education about save sex, Condoms,
sterile needles
Anti-HIV drugs: Reduce mother-baby transmission, PPE personal protection equipment
to prevent infection of health care workers accidentally exposed
✔✔HIV 90-90-90 initiative - ✔✔to assure that 90% of people living with HIV will know
thier status: 90% of people living iwth HIV will be engaged in HIV care, and 90% of
people living with HIV will have viral supression by 2020
✔✔Global fund - ✔✔2002 as an innovative financing mechanism that seeks to rapidly
raise and disburse funding for programs that reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS , TB, and
malaria in low- and middle-income countries.
✔✔How did AIDS help us understand infectious disease? - ✔✔-Shattered ideas that
ID's were conquered
-viral infections
-Host immunity
-Sex education changed
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Is there a vaccine for HIV? - ✔✔No, one is in trial. Rapid mutation rate of HIV is
making vaccine development difficult
✔✔is there a cure for HIV? - ✔✔Not currently, but antiviral drugs can be used to slow
down progression.
✔✔GRID - ✔✔Gay related immuno deficiency
✔✔What groups were the 4 H's of aids? - ✔✔Homosexuals, Haitians, Hemophiliac,
heroine users
✔✔What triggered attention to AIDS? - ✔✔-That it was a disease that impacted the Gay
community "gay cancer"
-Did not know what this was caused by
-negative attitudes/ stigma
-sexually transmitted
-Risk for cancers: Kaposi' Sarcoma skin cancer, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and
cervical cancer.
, ✔✔Ryan White - ✔✔A hemophiliac who caught HIV through a blood transfusion.
Changed perceptions about HIV
"caught in an acceptable way"
Went to court so he could go to school
✔✔Robert Gallo - ✔✔One of the scientists credited with discovering the cause of the
disease
-1983
-Thought it was similar to T-lymphotropic viruses that they isolated
✔✔Rock Hudson - ✔✔American actor; made people realize that anyone could get aids
-died of aids was one of the first celebrities to die
✔✔Luc Montagnier - ✔✔French researcher who also worked on discovering AIDS
showed that the core protiens of this virus were immunologically different from those of
HTLV-I
✔✔Origin of HIV - ✔✔-1900-1940 HIV enters humans multiple timess from chimps in W.
Central Africa
-HAART new HIV drug in 1990s used antretroviral therapy
✔✔Aids activism - ✔✔Protesting for human rights, wanted increased funding for
research, fast-track drug approval
✔✔HIV + vs AIDS - ✔✔HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that may cause
an infection. AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a condition
✔✔Aids prevention - ✔✔Behavioral change: Education about save sex, Condoms,
sterile needles
Anti-HIV drugs: Reduce mother-baby transmission, PPE personal protection equipment
to prevent infection of health care workers accidentally exposed
✔✔HIV 90-90-90 initiative - ✔✔to assure that 90% of people living with HIV will know
thier status: 90% of people living iwth HIV will be engaged in HIV care, and 90% of
people living with HIV will have viral supression by 2020
✔✔Global fund - ✔✔2002 as an innovative financing mechanism that seeks to rapidly
raise and disburse funding for programs that reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS , TB, and
malaria in low- and middle-income countries.
✔✔How did AIDS help us understand infectious disease? - ✔✔-Shattered ideas that
ID's were conquered
-viral infections
-Host immunity
-Sex education changed
