CategoriesFrom the Office NewsNorth Star Alliance is proud to confirm that a scoping mission to West Africa is currently taking place, with the aim to identify key areas within which the team can work alongside partnering NGO’s in the fight against Ebola. With a strong background in providing quality health services to mobile and hard-to-reach populations, the organisation […]
CategoriesFrom the Office NewsGood news from the WHO this week: trials on three promising Ebola vaccines are being accelerated and we may just have one of them in the field as early as the first quarter of 2015. A vaccine with even limited efficacy would be welcome news indeed, particularly for the beleaguered healthcare workers, who continue to […]
CategoriesFrom the Office NewsWe are facing a global pandemic that will impact millions, with a devastatingly high mortality rate, no known cure, and a slow and embarrassingly inadequate international response. Sound familiar? Not so long ago these very terms were used to describe the HIV/AIDS pandemic. And now, only a few days ago Thomas Frieden, director of the […]
CategoriesFrom the Office NewsWe’ve said before that ‘no single organisation, acting on its own, can turn the tide on public health’ – it is only together that we can make long-term change – and this week we’re celebrating the addition of a new partner to our Alliance. Our team in Southern Africa is proud to announce a local […]
CategoriesFrom the Office NewsSo, we all agree: the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been lacking, to put it mildly (and some are not putting it so mildly). But this consensus might obscure an even more important conclusion: if the global community had kept their past commitments to Africa we wouldn’t be in the […]
