Wellness Update: Africa: Wellness Centres” – to provide basic health services along with HIV prevention

openPR.com - Press release - North Star Alliance - North Star Alliance and SADC mobilise a major cross-border HIV prevention initiative: "North Star Alliance has 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, TB and Malaria (GFATM).

North Star and its partners will roll out a fleet of mobile clinics – “Wellness Centres” – to provide basic health services along with HIV prevention, STI treatment, HIV counselling and testing, condom distribution, and referrals to community health facilities when required.

“The project will have a multi-country approach aimed at providing border communities and mobile populations in resource-challenged areas with access to STI treatment and HIV prevention, to put the brakes on the epidemic in the region”, says Paul Matthew, Director for North Star Alliance Africa."