This program contracts with public and private agencies to provide AIDS education to specific target groups throughout the state. One of the target populations singled out for specific attention are intravenous drug users (IVDUs). This article describes the AIDS education programs for IVDUs funded by the Office of AIDS. These programs were mandated by the legislation to provide education and prevention by focusing their prevention activities on attitude, knowledge, and behavior change. Provisions were also made to issue contracts to evaluate the effectiveness of these programs. Of the twenty-four programs targeting IVDUs, ten focused on IVDUs in some form of drug treatment program, five focused on IVDUs who were not in treatment, and nine provided education and prevention interventions to both in-treatment and not-in-treatment IVDUs. The education and prevention programs dealing with the in-treatment IVDUs varied with regard to the type of intervention used and who provided the education. The educational intervention to clients was provided by either drug program staff or peer educators. Two types of educational programs were used to reach the client population: the training-of-trainers and educating IVDUs directly through formal presentations. The not-in-treatment IVDUs provide a variety of issues and problems for health educators. Innovative programs such as street outreach are necessary to reach this group. This article concludes that the state is making a good effort to reach IVDUs, but that further educational and evaluative efforts are necessary. Specifically, the individual educational programs need to move beyond the transmission and evaluation of cognitive knowledge about AIDS to an assessment of the attitudes that impede behavior change. 1 table, 17 references. (Author abstract modified)