PIP: In Accra, Ghana, staff and colleagues of Family Health International (FHI) have launched a pilot program to slow the spread of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The program educates prostitutes about AIDS and the expected protective benefits of condom and spermicide use. Natural leaders are identified among groups of prostitutes and trained to be health educators for other prostitutes. The program supplies the educators with both condoms and vaginal spermicidal tablets. The health educators keep track of the women's use of the supplies to allow measures of behavioral change that might serve to slow AIDS transmission. In preparing for the Ghana program, prostitutes were tested for HIV and interviewed about their knowledge of AIDS and precautions they were taking against it and other sexually transmitted diseases. The interviews revealed that the prostitutes were aware of AIDS and very fearful, but they lacked accurate information about AIDS, ways to reduce personal risks and risks to customers, and access to services that might assist them. The Ghana study, which will last for 6 months and involve 8 health educators working with 100 other prostitutes, is funded by the American Foundation for AIDS Research. FHI is considering the feasibility of similar interventions in other African, Asian, Latin American countries, and the US.