North Star Alliance (Blue Box Clinic)
North Star Alliance
Solution Overview & Benefits
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.
History & Development
North Star is a pioneer in last-mile health for mobile populations and the communities they interact with.
In practice, they convert shipping containers into Blue Box clinics, also known as Roadside Wellness Centres (RWCs), to provide health services to our target groups. The Blue Boxes are strategically placed at border crossings, transit towns, and ports where sex work and informal trade thrive. Blue Boxes provides health services focusing on HIV prevention and treatment, diagnosis and treatment for common ailments, TB screening and treatment, and screening of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
Availability
- 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
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