North Star Alliance

With approximately one in every four people living with HIV, Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world. Despite continuous efforts from the government, community based organizations and international NGOs to promote HIV prevention, for some people getting tested remains taboo. At North Star’s Roadside Wellness Centre in Ngwenya, near the border with [...]

The following article was written by Steve Banker and originally appeared on Logistics Viewpoints on 19 December 2011. The Holidays are a time for giving. My posting today celebrates the best example of corporate giving that I came across in my travels this year. TNT, a large global provider of express deliveries, and ORTEC, a [...]

ORTEC and North Star Alliance are participating in the “11partners in 2011” campaign. This campaign, organized by NUzakelijk.nl, recognizes partnerships between Non-Governmental Organizations (such as North Star) and commercial organizations such as ORTEC, one of North Star’s core partners. With this campaign NUzakelijk, Partners4Change and Young Professionals Make the Difference aim to stimulate the cooperation [...]

This year, we enter the fourth decade of an epidemic that has had a profound impact on humanity. While part of this impact reflects the devastating human toll AIDS has had in communities around the globe, more recently it has also reflected tremendous feats of innovation and growing leadership from a diverse group of stakeholders. [...]

“This system enables us to select optimal Roadside Wellness Centres locations” After successfully developing North Star Alliance’s client health registration system, ORTEC has now delivered a new application that will assist North Star in determining optimal clinical locations and number of employees for its network of Roadside Wellness Centres (RWCs). The new solution is developed [...]

Good day. Welcome to North Star SMS wellness support. If you want to stop getting the SMSs, send a please-call-me at any time. This month, North Star Alliance and Cell-Life, a not-for-profit organisation that provides technology for the management of HIV, launched an innovative SMS-based pilot programme designed to deliver important health training information to [...]

The newest partner to join North Star Alliance will ensure quality standardization and sustainability across the Roadside Wellness Centre Network PharmAccess Foundation (PharmAccess) and North Star Alliance (North Star) signed a Memorandum of Understanding, making PharmAccess the sixth core partner of North Star. North Star provides health and safety services to mobile workers and communities [...]

“Meet people on the move across Africa and provide them with basic health care”. While North Star’s mission seems simple, by many, it can be seen as a nearly impossible challenge. The latest numbers coming in from our electronic health passport system, COMETS, however, are showing the success. Because of this success, we’re preparing to [...]

Last week, North Star Alliance and Art for AIDS International opened a large exhibition in collaboration with the World Food Programme at the Second Annual Global Agri-Knowledge Share Fair in Rome – hosted at the headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a UN agency responsible for combating rural hunger and poverty in developing [...]

The following post was written by North Star`s Director for Donor and Partner Relations in North America, Georgie Kovacs Barden Last year at this time, I had just returned from my honeymoon and was excited about starting my new job at North Star. My task here in New York City has been to find donors who [...]