Question

Can I get i-Base info in Bengali, Polish or Swahili – or other languages?

11 March 2025. Related: Access to treatment, All topics, Support.

Hi there, I am a health worker in the UK and often see people who are recently diagnosed but who do not speak English very well.

Main languages I need this week include Bengali, Polish and Swahili.

Does i-Base have resources in these languages?

Answer

Answer: Simon Collins

Hi there

Although i-Base only answers questions and produces resources in English, it is easy to get our information in other languages.

Online translation can give a very good instant translation of any info online.

For example, Google translate covers more than 140 languages.

This works for cut & pasted text, web pages, PDF and even whole websites – all instantly.

The results are not perfect but they are close enough.

Putting in i-base.info website instantly translates every page of the i-Base website as you click each link. Just find the i-Base links you want and work on another screen to show the translations – printing what you need.

For example, if you are a health worker and have a client who is newly diagnosed:

• HIV-positive – looking for information…
• Just found out
• Who can I talk to?

Or use these links to different treatment guides.

• Introduction to HIV treatment (ART).
• Changing treatment.
• Side effects and quality of life.
• Pregnancy.
• Hepatitis C coinfection.
• HIV testing & transmission.
• PrEP in the UK