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Recently, there has been an increase in new cases of HIV in the U.S. due to shifts in attitudes about prevention. One of the reasons given for this increase is safe-sex fatigue. What does this mean?
 
  a. being tired of having to always engage in safer sex practices
  b. a belief that HIV is curable and therefore safe-sex practices are no longer needed
  c. a sense of invincibility, which leads people to abandon safer sex practices
  d. lack of knowledge about HIV which causes a naivety about safe sex

Question 2

Researchers continue to examine whether there is a relationship between sex and HIV. Who is at greater risk of contracting HIV through heterosexual intercourse?
 
  a. women
  b. men
  c. men and women are at equal risk
  d. heterosexual men and women are not at risk



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: A



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