NEW YORK (AP) -- Do ask _ and do tell.
That's how the New York City Health Department wants doctors and patients to handle the sometimes awkward topic of sexual practices.
In a survey of men who had sex with other men, 39 percent had not disclosed their orientation to their doctors. The Health Department said that lapse greatly reduced the patients' odds of being tested for HIV.
The department adds that the testing should take place even when the conversation does not. Federal guidelines call on health care providers to offer HIV tests to all patients between the ages of 13 and 64.
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