amfAR Quiz HIV and Aging

What’s Your HIV and Aging IQ?

Test your knowledge about HIV and aging with a six-question quiz from amfAR.

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1. What percentage of people living with HIV in the
U.S. are older than 50?

13%

24%

36%

54%

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2. True or false: Older Americans are rarely diagnosed with HIV later in the course of their disease.

True

False

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3. True or false: No matter when they started treatment, people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) with high CD4 cell counts have a life expectancy similar to the general population.

True

False

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4. Why are older people less likely to get tested for HIV?

Healthcare providers may not always recommend HIV testing for older people, perceiving them to be at low risk.

Embarrassment or fear may prevent older people learning their status.

Signs of HIV may be mistaken for symptoms of aging or age-related conditions in older people, and therefore older people may go undiagnosed.

All of the above.

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5. True or false: Women living with HIV are more likely than women not living with HIV to develop early and premature menopause.

True

False

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6. According to the National Resource Center on HIV & Aging, long-term survivors can be defined, in part, as people living with HIV who:

received an HIV/AIDS diagnosis before 1996 and lived through the era (pre-1995/1996) when there were no effective treatments

may be challenged by survivor’s guilt (feelings of guilt for living longer than expected when others did not)

experience high rates of depression as well as post-traumatic stress disorder due to social isolation

All of the above

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