A 16-year-old patient has just been diagnosed with HIV. Which statement by the parent indicates understanding of the diagnosis?
A) "It is important for our child to get started on drug therapy for a better chance of a cure of the infection."
B) "I must be infected with HIV and passed it to our child while in the uterus for the infection to have occurred."
C) "We don't want to face the fact that it is likely our child contracted HIV through sexual contact or IV drug use."
D) "Infections as a result of being HIV positive are a low risk since the diagnosis came early."
Ans: C
In teenagers, HIV is primarily contracted through sexual intercourse with an infected person or sharing of needles with an infected person during IV drug use. There is no cure for HIV, infants primarily contract the virus from their mothers, and infections as a result of having HIV are not dependent on when the diagnosis occurred.
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