North Star Alliance

North Star Alliance brings health to hard-to-reach people across Africa in a “Blue Box”. They use converted shipping containers (painted blue) to house clinics that deliver public health programmes for people with increased health risks, like truck drivers and sex workers, and primary health care to communities with limited or no access to medical services.

Each drop-in clinic is run by well trained clinical and outreach teams and supported by the North Star Alliance electronic health passport system (COMETs), which allows patients to access their health records at every clinic within their network. The daily data feed also helps North Star Alliance maintain quality standards and monitor shifting disease patterns across entire regions.

Since 2007, North Star Alliance has grown from one clinic with 5000 visitors, to a network reaching over 280,000 people in 13 countries.

Publicly available: yes
Countries where available: South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, The Gambia
Price range (USD): Free