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Reports on the anonymous mailing of a confidential computer disk that contained the names of AIDS patients in Tampa, Florida, to the `Tampa Tribune' newspaper, after it was dropped by a public health worker outside a bar. Who the Tribune gave a copy of the disk and the letter accompanying it to; Implications of the violation for AIDS confidentiality; Uncertainty as to the number of copies of the disk made.

The article reports on the opposition of civil-liberties groups to a list published by Auburn University's student newspaper in Montgomery, Alabama which lists local AIDS victims. The list has been compiled by city officials to make police officers and firefighters aware of AIDS-infected people they might encounter in rescue missions. Civil-liberties groups expressed opposition citing possible discrimination against those people with AIDS.

Presents an article on HIV-infected people in Ethiopia. How they are discriminated in Ethiopia; Reason for their refusal to talk about their status in society; Approach used in taking their photographs.

It has been 20 years since Cleve Jones started the AIDS Memorial Quilt here, painting the name of a friend who had died from the disease on a simple piece […]

LEAD: SOME people do not understand why Maureen Cassidy of Fairfield gave up a career as a cosmetics executive, and her paycheck, to work with AIDS patients. SOME people do […]