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 [...]
Photo of the Week | Hogwarts and Highways
A small store owned by a local businessman stays open late into the night in Chirundu with customers watching a Harry Potter DVD on the television. This small settlement on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe is a key transit point on the Great North trucking route from South Africa through to East Africa and [...]
Celebrating Corporate Giving in Logistics
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 [...]
Photo of the week | Highway Robbery
Last week we introduced you to one of the strangest visitors ever to stop by our Roadside Wellness Center in Chirundu South, Zimbabwe. Only 200 meters from our Wellness Centre during the same site visit we came across a particularly mischievous group at the border that gives a new face to the old expression “highway [...]
Vote for ORTEC and North Star Alliance in the 11parterns in 2011 Campaign
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 [...]
World AIDS Day: On the Road to Zero New Infections
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. [...]
Photo of the week | An unlikely visitor
This young bull elephant is a frequent visitor to the North Star Alliance Wellness Centre (top right) in Chirundu South, Zimbabwe. He often strolls by about 6pm with little more than a glance from staff. However, he has been known to snap off the water tap, trample some plants and startle the visiting North Star [...]
New ORTEC system helps North Star Alliance ‘optimize the world’
“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 [...]
Innovative SMS Programme delivers essential health information to truck drivers in Southern Africa
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 [...]
Photo of the week | North of Machakos
This photo was taken on the fly while travelling the busy Mombasa highway between Machakos Junction and Nairobi (Kenya). This is the main corridor for trucks carrying goods between Mombasa and Kampala (Uganda) and you can tell that the drivers are in it for the long haul. Staying safe on this road requires skilled driving, [...]
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Driving the AIDS Response through Art
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The Napkin List
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Bringing North Star to TNT Benelux
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North Star Alliance and G4S use Cricket to Raise Awareness about HIV [GALLERY]
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A Year in Review [Infographic]
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Wellness Centre Campaign Promotes Safe Love this Valentine’s Day
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Photo of the Week | Hogwarts and Highways
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Celebrating Corporate Giving in Logistics
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Photo of the week | Highway Robbery
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Vote for ORTEC and North Star Alliance in the 11parterns in 2011 Campaign
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