A nurse is working with a number of clients who are among the fastest growing group of persons newly infected with HIV. These clients are most likely:
1. Men who have sex with men and use drugs.
2. Men who have sex with women.
3. Injection drug users.
4. Heterosexual women.
4. Heterosexual women.
Rationale:
The fastest growing group of persons newly infected with HIV is heterosexual women. Though injection drug users and men who have sex with men and use drugs are at high risk for HIV, their numbers are not rising as fast as the numbers of heterosexual women. In the absence of other risk factors, men who have sex with women are not at as high a risk of being infected as heteosexual women.
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