A Community Health Nurse Would Like to Reduce the Prevalence

question 22

Multiple Choice

A community health nurse would like to reduce the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the community. Which of the following activities would most likely be used?

• A) Establish immunization clinics to prevent sexual transmitted infections (STIs).
• B) Educate people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) about the mode of transmission.
• C) Explain to women that HIV is transmitted to women usually by intravenous drug abuse.
• D) Develop an STD clinic to increase community access to services.

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