North Star Alliance

Last year, we posted our first-ever infographic in conjunction with the release of our 2010 Annual Overview to highlight what was a busy year of growth and development. This year, we wanted to give you a sneak peak at some of the exciting results we’ll be reporting in our forthcoming 2011 Annual Overview. As the [...]

North Star Alliance and Fleet Forum have announced ‘NSEWA’, an initiative to close the gap between health services and road safety through specially designed driver safety training and health-related programmes aimed at the Road Freight Industry.

“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 [...]

“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 [...]

This photo was taken in Mwanza, Malawi by Audhriech-Kadyakapita, North Star Alliance clinician at our Mwanza Wellness Centre, where, this week, we launched a brand new HIV testing centre (on the right side). The opening of this new HIV Testing Centre is both exciting and significant, not only because it will allow us to greatly [...]

Sit back, relax, and enjoy a tiny bag of popcorn while you watch “On the Road with North Star Alliance” – a new promotional video outlining the history of North Star Alliance, our approach, and impact of our work, both on the ground across Africa and for our partners around the world.

All of us at North Star Alliance are excited to announce that we’ve signed an agreement with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to gear up cross-border HIV prevention activities over the next five years with a grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. As part of this initiative, we will [...]

Welcome to Beitbridge Zimbabwe – a border community that lies at the foot of the Limpopo River and at the political border between Zimbabwe and South Africa. In 2009, North Star Alliance opened a Roadside Wellness Centre in Beitbridge that has quickly become one of our busiest centres. In 2010 alone, Beitbridge saw 19,705 visits!

As dusk falls nurse Chama Kangumu counsels a client prior to doing an HIV test in the North Star Alliance Roadside Wellness Centre which is run in the evenings close to the border in Chirundu. This is a transit point on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is a HIV/AIDS transmission hotspot and it [...]

Over the past month, North Star Alliance and TNT have hit the road, visiting truck stops, conferences, and office blocks across Europe to raise awareness about health, mobility, and the important role North Star Alliance’s network of Roadside Wellness Centers is playing across East, West, and Southern Africa.