This case study was designed to identify strategies for helth education to prevent the transmission of hepatitis C virus in Egypt at the community level. Epidemiology research in the study area, and elsewhere in Egypt, had indicated that unsafe injection and' instrument use by health staff appeared likely to transmit HCV. This paper describes a pilot program to target health providers at government primary care facilities. The objectives of the program were I) to increase health providers, knowledge of hepatitis, especially HeV; 2) to utilize this knowledge to ensure safe practices in the primary health care setting and 3) to enable providers to respond to the needs of patents and community members. Formative research identified provider's knowledge of HeV, and observede practices in the health centers. Doctors Nurses, technicians and custodian, as well as regional Ministry of Health and population staff participated in information and training workshops, in which messages and posters developed. In response to provider's requests, and with their collaboration, simble booklets on HeV and on sterilization for use by doctors and nurses in primary health care settings were developed and tested. Activities were monitored and evaluated, and recommendations were made for a viable, sustainable program of health aducation for health providers that could be further tested on the district level. The experience of the researchers at the community level, and in primary health care units, also provides front line workers in other countries with insights that may contribute to health promotion in their own local settings.