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Published in final edited form as: J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2007 Sep-Oct;18(5):51–56. doi: 10.1016/j.jana.2007.07.001

Table 2.

Sample Questions with Corresponding Frequency of Wrong Answers

Question	Incorrect Answers
HIV/AIDS is not transmitted by using public bathrooms.	14 (31%)
All body secretions from an HIV-positive person contain the HIV virus.	23 (51%)
A pregnant woman who is HIV-positive and receiving treatment during her pregnancy has less chance of passing the virus to her child.	29 (64%)
Having a cesarean birth does not decrease the newborn baby’s chances of getting infected by the HIV virus.	33 (73%)
A newborn baby can acquire the HIV virus through breastfeeding from an HIV-positive woman.	20 (44%)