The Difficulty in Estimating the Number of Cases of HIV/AIDS

question 95

Multiple Choice

The difficulty in estimating the number of cases of HIV/AIDS among adolescents is that

• A) most infected adolescents do not seek treatment so they are never counted.
• B) some adolescents who initially show symptoms do not go on to develop the disease.
• C) HIV/AIDS is often mistaken for another bacterial infection among young people.
• D) the infection takes about 10 years to develop so an infected adolescent may not show symptoms until he or she is in their 20s.

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