| mandated life versus mandatory death: new york's disgraceful partner notification record. | in new york city in 1993, there were some 18,000 positive hiv tests but only 350 partner notifications completed by the new york city health department. the bleak disparity between these two numbers should haunt us all. we will never know for certain how many lives could have been saved by universally available notification services, but looking at the results of current, obstructive new york state notification law and policy, we have to know we are facing an enormous public health failure. in s ... | 1995 | 7642781 |