Between June and July 1997, a qualitative study was carried out among first-year medical students and staff at a Medical University in Beijing on the needs of the medioal students for AIDS/STD/Safer Sex education.Some sensitive issues that had been revealed from a questionnaire survey carried out among the students prior to this study were also discussed with the participants. Five Focus Group Discussions (FGD,6-8 Participants in each group) were conducted, and In-depth Interviews(IDI) were conducted with 4 junior and 3 senior medical students, 1 University clinic doctor and 3 Senior University officials who play an important role in policy making at the University. The main findings of this study were: (1) All the participants of FGD and IDI reported that there was almost no AIDS/STD/Safer Sex education among first-year medical students, and they suggested that this education was Urgently needed; (2)Most of them expressed a great interest in employing Peer Education methodology,and suggested tha it should be tested. But both those who approved and disapproved of using peer education expressed some concerns about whether negative effects would be produced by using this form of education; (3)The attitudes of some of them to pre marital sex practised among University students were liberal and tolerant, regarding it as"understandable" and "othe People's privacy", whilst others strongly disapproved of this behaviour; (4) Regarding how to prevent pre-marital sex and its adverse conseqUences, most of them suggested that supporting education is needed, especially ethical and moral education. Appropriate safer sex education should also be provided; (5)Their attitudes towards an AIDS patient changed according to how the infection was acquired. If HIV was contracted arcidentally tbough medical procedures such sex as blood transfusion,the person deserved more sympathy and support. If on the other hand the virus was acquired as a result of risky behaviours such as or/and drug use, there was litile sympathy for the infected person. However,regardless of how the person was infected,the doctor Should Still treat the patient.