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  • Our Mission

    We provide mobile populations and related communities with sustainable access to high quality health services. Read More

  • Where we work

    North Star operates 29 clinics strategically placed along Africa’s transport corridors. Find out where on our interactive map. Read More

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    North Star works with over 60 partners to deliver health care where it’s needed most. Find out about our partners. Read More

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    Watch ORTEC and North Star Alliance win the 2013 GBCHealth “Technology for Health” Award
    On May 16th, North Star Alliance and long time partner ORTEC were awarded the 2013 Technology for Health Award at the GBCHealth Business Action on Health Awards in New York, in recognition of their combined efforts to track and counter the spread of disease with a unique electronic health passport system, called COMETS. Today, we’re [...]
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    Technology for Health: A Letter Of Thanks
    Dear Friends, This past week, our long-time partner ORTEC received the prestigious ‘Technology for Health’ Award, from the hands of Her Excellency Madam Ngema-Zuma, the First Lady of South Africa, as part of the Global Business Action on Health Awards for the support they’ve shown North Star in developing our electronic health passport system, “COMETS”. [...]
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    Lessons Learned in Lukala
    On the 31st of March, North Star officially closed our Roadside Wellness Centre (RWC) in Lukala, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Although news of new RWCs strengthening our network is always great to share, we believe it’s also important to look back and be open about our experiences with centres that did not prove [...]
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    Building Technology for Health: North Star Alliance and ORTEC [VIDEO]
    This week, North Star Alliance is attending the 2013 GBC Health Conference in New York, where we are being recognised alongside our long time partner ORTEC, at the Business Action on Health Awards for our electronic health passport system, COMETS. With the opening reception only hours away, and the Technology for Health Award presentation coming [...]
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    Workers’ Day Outreach in Ficksburg
    On International Workers’ Day, countries around the world take the time to recognise the important role that workers and labour movements have played in securing fair employment standards and building a culture respectful of worker and human rights. In 2006, we opened our first clinic (Roadside Wellness Centre) in response to the realisation that mobile [...]
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    Inchope
    Inchope is strategically located at the intersection of two major transport routes crossing Mozambique; one linking the port of Beira to the Zimbabwean capital Harare, and the other connecting the North of the country to the South. First Opening: 1 March 2013 Partners: FHI360, United Nations World Food Programme, the Ministry of Transport and Communication [...]
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  • Our Roadside Clinics

    Farafenni
    Truck drivers in the Gambia tend to be highly mobile and commonly spend between two weeks and a month away from home to cover domestic routes; a remarkably long period of time country that is only 500 km long and 50 km wide. Bad road conditions, poorly maintained trucks, and infrequent access to petrol exacerbate [...]
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    Kazungula Ferry
    Kazungula Ferry is a pontoon ferry across the 400-metre-wide Zambezi River. It is one of the largest ferries in south-central Africa and operates between border posts at Kazungula, Zambia and Kasane, Botswana. The Kazungula Ferry links the Livingstone-Sesheke road (which connects to the Trans–Caprivi Highway at Katima Mulilo and forms part of the Walvis Bay [...]
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  • Our Roadside Clinics

    Forbes
    Forbes is located in Manicaland, Zimbabwe near the Mozambican border along a key transport route connecting Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, to the Port of Beira in Mozambique.
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  • Our Roadside Clinics

    Matsapha
    The Matsapha Roadside Wellness Centre (RWC) opened its doors at the beginning of 1 October 2012 and forms part of the network of clinics operated by North Star across the Southern African region.
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    Cato Ridge
    The Cato Ridge Roadside Wellness Centre (RWC) opened its doors at the beginning of April 2011 and forms part of the network of clinics operated by North Star across the Southern African region. The clinic is situated at Cato Ridge Truck Stop, South Africa near N3. It is staffed by three people; a Site Coordinator, [...]
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    Ficksburg
    The Ficksburg Roadside Wellness Centre (RWC) opened its doors at the beginning of March 2012 and forms part of the SADC HIV and Aids, TB and Malaria Cross Border Project and is part of the network of clinics operated by North Star across the Southern African region. It is staffed by five people; a Site [...]
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    Victoria Falls
    Victoria Falls is a town in the province of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. It lies on the southern bank of the Zambezi River at the western end of the Victoria Falls themselves. It is connected by road and railway to Hwange (109 km away) and Bulawayo (440 km away), both to the south-east.
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    Kagongwa
    Kagongwa is situated near Kahama which lies in northwestern Tanzania.
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    Mwanza
    Mwanza is a mid-sized port city on the southern shores of Lake Victoria in northwestern Tanzania. In East Africa, the Northern and Central Transport Corridors connect the people of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Additionally, these corridors also provide port access to the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Sudan. Trade [...]
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