HIV Education (6th Grade)

What is the virus that causes AIDS?

• Hardly Infected Virus
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus
• Human Infected Virus
• Hate Infections Virus

What body system is attacked by the HIV virus?

• The reproductive system
• The respiratory system
• The endocrine system
• The immune system

What is the job of the immune system?

• Makes red blood cells
• Allows humans to reproduce
• Protects body from foreign invaders like germs.
• Helps the body digest food

When HIV enters the bloodstream it attacks the 

• B cell
• D cell
• H cell
• T cell

What does the HIV virus do inside the T cell?

• destroy the T cell immediately
• make copies of itself then destroy the T cell
• hang out forever
• the virus doesn't affect the T cell at all

Being HIV positive means

• the HIV virus is in your bloodstream
• you are going to get sick
• the HIV virus is in your saliva
• you're immune system is broken down

A person can only spread HIV if they look sick.

• True 
• False

Once you have HIV in your blood, you will ALWAYS have HIV in your blood. There is no cure.

• True
• False

A person who has HIV will always look sick?

• True
• False

When HIV destroys most of the T cells and the person becomes very sick, we say they have

• HIV 
• AIDS
• STI
• CVS