Deck 17: Ethical Issues in Stopping the Global Spread of Aids

Question 1

If HAART is not provided in developing countries, people have less reason to get tested for IV because:

A) By getting tested, they only learn bad news.
B) They have no way to save their children.
C) They have no way to feed their children.
D) They cannot get clean needles.
E) They cannot get basic medical supplies.

Answer 1

By getting tested, they only learn bad news.

Question 2

When the bubonic plague stalked Europe in the 14^th Century, which of the following did not happen?

A) Jews were blamed as scapegoats and sometimes killed at the culmination of flagellation (whipping) processions going from city to city in Europe.
B) Many physicians abandoned their profession.
C) Flagellation processions indirectly spread the bubonic plague.
D) Fourteenth century medicine attributed the disease to astrological causes.
E) The Pope attacked the notion that the disease was caused by sin.

Answer 2

The Pope attacked the notion that the disease was caused by sin.

Question 3

Which of the following is true?

A) Dentist David Acer accidentally infected his patient Kimberly Bergalis.
B) NuShawn Williams was wrongly accused of infecting over two-dozen young women with HIV.
C) Although education was attempted, the incidence of new cases of HIV has not been reduced recently in Thailand.
D) The first proven case of HIV in humans was from a blood sample collected in 1959.
E) The U.S. Supreme Court recently considered, but did not drastically modify, its previous ruling in Bowers vs. Hardwick.

Answer 3

The first proven case of HIV in humans was from a blood sample collected in 1959.

Question 4

In developing countries and in poor parts of North American, why has AIDS become a disease of women and children?

A) Because they get infected more easily than men.
B) Because women have less power than men, and because babies are born HIV-infected.
C) Because of lack of money for treatment.
D) Because of genetic susceptibility.
E) Because of lack of education.

Question 5

Which of the following is a FALSE statement?

A) Randy Shilts in And The Band Played On argues that Robert Gallo stole credit for discovering that HIV causes AIDS from Luc Montagnier.
B) By 2001, AIDS had killed nearly a half million Americans.
C) NuShawn Williams infected several women with HIV.
D) In the 1980s, activist Larry Kramer tried to shut down gay bathhouses.
E) South Africa has the lowest number of HIV-infected people in Africa.

Question 6

Triage, applied to developing countries with large numbers of HIV-infected citizens and poor infrastructure, implies:

A) Care and concern, but no action
B) Abandonment
C) Partial treatment
D) Palliative treatment
E) Preventive treatment

Question 7

Which of these is false?

A) The HIV virus first appeared only about 1981.
B) A person can be evicted in many states because she says she is lesbian; she has no legal protection by statute against being so evicted.
C) A person can be fired in Birmingham because he is gay and he has no legal protection by statute against being so fired.
D) One of the main reasons that blood was not screened for hepatitis B, as in indirect screen for HIV, in the early 1980's is that officials thought that such screening was too expensive.
E) The Reverend Jerry Falwell blamed gay men for spreading HIV in America.

Question 8

Bowers vs. Hardwick said that,

A) A state cannot make sex between two gay men illegal.
B) A state could make sex between two gay men illegal.
C) A state must make sex between two gay men illegal.
D) A state may impose civil, but not criminal, penalties on gay sex.
E) A state may not make illegal any kind of sexual behavior between consenting adults.

Question 9

"Nothing is really going to stop the spread of AIDS until you change the underlying conditions that make people want to use intravenous drugs and engage in unsafe sexual practices." In the politics of AIDS prevention, this approach is called the:

A) Educational approach.
B) Tough Love approach.
C) Structuralist approach.
D) Moralistic approach.
E) Cynical approach.

Question 10

Which of these is NOT an amplification system for the spread of HIV?

A) International airports.
B) A national system of interstate highways.
C) A national blood bank.
D) Sharing intravenous drugs.
E) Education.