North Star Alliance ^Company

North Star Alliance is a nonprofit organization that provides quality healthcare to mobile workers and the communities they interact with. Its "Blue Box" approach breaks down the social barriers of traditional health clinics, providing mobile populations with primary healthcare services from Blue Box clinics. These clinics are located at 'hotspots' like border posts, transit towns, or ports where large numbers of trucks stop, load and offload, and where sex work and informal trades flourish. North Star Alliance offers comprehensive health service packages. Its Blue Box clinicians provide general health check-ups, treatment for a range of diseases including malaria, sexually transmitted infections, counselling and testing for HIV, anti-retroviral treatment and referrals, condoms and information on topics including tuberculosis, hypertension, diabetes and positive gender relations.