In mid-June, AED/PCS Program Officers, Lucia Kramer and Chamberlain Diala, traveled to Lagos, Nigeria to conduct a two-week training course on HIV/AIDS information and counseling skills for the new Youth Empowerment Foundation HIV/AIDS telephone hotline based out of Lagos. They trained 22 youths from ten local organizations on HIV/AIDS and counseling skills to staff the phones for the hotline. A training of trainers followed the workshop to build in sustainability to the Hotline Project. For this training, AED/PCS developed a manual based on a similar HIV/AIDS training course conducted in South Africa in Fall of 2000. In addition to the manual, all participants received a copy of the book HIV Health & Your Community, A Guide for Action by Reuben Granich, MD., M.P.H.; Jonathon Mermin, MD., M.P.H., as a reference manual. In preparation of the training Chamberlain and Cathy Chappell-Chambers met with the Whitman Walker Clinic HIV/AIDS hotline staff here in Washington and traveled to New York City to meet with the Gay Mens Health Crisis (GMHC) center in early June to get a first hand look at how HIV/AIDS Hotlines in the US are run. These visits were extremely beneficial for the success of the training. In mid-August a mass-media campaign will take place to promote the Hotline within Lagos. There are plans in the works to expand the Hotline to a national level in the near future.