Healthy Highway Project:
           This is a brief description of SPYM's highly sucessful "Healthy Highway" Project:

The target of this project are the truckers who are a high-risk group for contacting STD/HIV/AIDS, due to being highly mobile & consequently staying away from home almost throughout the year. The need was assessed to pay more attention to their unsafe sexual behaviour which was being practiced on the highways by this vulnerable and high risk group. 
SPYM had initiated prevention activities with truckers on Delhi-Jaipur(NH-1) and Delhi-Kanpur (NH-2) highways under its "Truck Driver Project" in 1992. Its intervention programme included information dissemination, condom demonstration and distribution and STD referral services by local STD specialists.

Since 1997 SPYM has been implementing a pilot project supported by DFID at:

1. NH-2(Lal Kuan),

2. NH-8(Rajokari Border)

3. NH-1A(Narwal Jammu).

The Projects' main components are:

1. Behaviour Change Communication (BCC)

2. Condom Promotion

3. Treatment/Counselling of STD/HIV patients.

The overall goal is to stabilize and reduce the prevalence of STD/HIV/AIDS among the truckers in the three highways in Northern India.

Achievements of Healthy Highway project :

1. 65% of the truckers treated at the national level under the National Truckers Project, have been treated by SPYM at the three clinic/centres. (NH-2 Lal Kuan; NH-8 Rajokari Border and NH-1A Narwal Jammu.

2. 4 lakh people have been provided regular accessibility and availability of quality condoms at the project sites.

3. Approximately 4 lakh truckers were contacted for BCC (Behaviour Change Communications) sessions (1-1 and 1 to group) by the project staff of SPYM.

NOTE: 1 lakh = 100 thousand

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