The major purpose of this study is to understand the teachers' AIDS teaching status, attitudes, and needs. Another purpose is to explore the relationship between teachers' backgroundinformation and their perceived teaching barriers, attitudes, and need assessments. The population of this study includes: (1) health education teachers injunior high school, (2) nursingand counseling teachers in senior high school, and (3) nursing teachers in college in the Taiwanarea. 513 subjects from the population were selected by stratum proportional sampling. Datawas collected by mailed questionnaires. The major findings are:1. About 43.7 of the respondents had ever received some in-service training. Contacts with AIDS patients and/or HIV carriers are rare.2. The major barriers to conduct AIDS education are (1) short of materials, (2) lack of in-service training, and (3) deficiency of knowledge.3. Those who had never received any training reported more barriers than those who had.4. Among all respondents, AIDS relevant attitudes (i.e., accepting AIDS patients, AIDS an tibody testing, condom usage) are positive. Nursing school teachers had stronger attitude than health education and counseling teachers.5. Teachers with different education levels, different teaching subjects, and different length of teaching (in years) scored differently on attitudes toward condom and accepting AIDS patients.6. Over 80 of the teachers reported the needs for AIDS education materials. The most of ten used teaching methods are (1) lecture, (2) small group discussion, and (3) questions and answers. The most often used teaching aids are (1) audio cassettes, (2) projectors, and (3) slides. Most teachers preferred to have in-service training that holds 1/2 day, or 1-2 days. Preferred sites are outside the schoo/county district. Preferred time is during the semester.