HIV information in 17 languages

Many of our most popular information resources for people living with HIV are now available in lots of other languages! You can find them all at www.aidsmap.com/translations.

Over several years, we’ve been working on this huge range of resources with translators, people living with HIV, HIV support organisations, doctors and nurses in other countries.

Information booklets and The basics series

Our illustrated series of leaflets, The basics, is designed to support conversations between people living with HIV and health professionals. The simple language and concise text present a particular challenge for translation – and in some languages the complicated design presented another challenge! Our designer and the people working on the translations worked really hard to adapt these resources to each language and the end results are fantastic, with over 150 titles available. We especially love how they look in Arabic and Thai!

The information booklet series is widely read and covers key topics in more detail. Undertaking translations of these booklets was a significant task for the individuals and organisations we worked with and we are very grateful for all the work they did to make them so useful. For some languages there are multiple booklet titles available – there are as many as nine translated into French and seven in Spanish.

Sharing knowledge, supporting conversations

We know that many people who speak languages other than English visit aidsmap.com and we hope that these resources will support them in learning about HIV and their health and treatment. All the resources are written with the treatment and care situation in Europe in mind, but much of the information is relevant to people wherever they live.

We also hope that these translated resources will be useful for people who don’t speak these languages! We regularly hear from people who work in clinics and support organisations, who are looking for reliable translated information to share with the people in their care who don’t speak English as their first language. These resources will, we hope, go some way towards meeting that need.

Other translated resources

In addition to these information resources, some other translated materials are available on our language pages, in particular in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. For example, our Antiretroviral drugs chart – popular with both people with HIV and with clinicians – is available in these languages. We send out our monthly email bulletin HIV prevention news: Europe in five languages too, as well as bulletins from key international conferences covering HIV.

We also maintain listings of HIV and related services all over the world through our e-atlas (www.aidsmap.com/e-atlas). As part of the ongoing development of the e-atlas, we are working with the listed organisations to upload and link to information resources they produce and over time these will also be made available through the relevant language pages. You can see an example of this work in the French pages here or explore the country pages of the e-atlas for more.

For more information

The full list of languages we have worked on is Arabic, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.

You can find all the translated resources at www.aidsmap.com/translations.

We would like to say an absolutely enormous thank you to all the individuals and teams we worked with on these resources.

We would also like to thank Merck Sharp and Dohme, Gilead, Janssen, Boehringer Ingelheim, ViiV Healthcare, Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb for their financial support of our translation work.

If you would like to tell us about translations of our work that you have done, let us know about languages you would find useful to see included in future work, would like to translate any of our materials, or have any other questions or comments, please contact us at info@nam.org.uk.