A school nurse is talking with a health class of freshman high school students about human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). What patient would the nurse tell the students is at the greatest risk of contracting HIV?
A) Injecting drug user
B) Female homosexual
C) Blood transfusion recipient in 1995
D) Health care provider
Ans: A
Feedback: Risk factors for HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) include being an injecting drug user, male homosexual, heterosexual with an infected partner, and recipient of blood products contaminated with HIV, especially prior to 1985.
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