On 28 Jul 2003 at 16:25, Moshe & Susan Srebrnik wrote: > Does anyone have any current information on breastfeeding in Arabic? > Basic stuff - protocols; baby friendly info; breastfeeding management > etc. I am working with a number of hospitals in Nazareth where the > nurses can't read English and don't have the budget for translations. > Any suggestions would be most welcome! The Dutch breastfeeding association has made a page (Luckily bilingual, Dutch & English) with gives breastfeeding sources in many langues: http://www.borstvoeding.nl/talen.html Arabic stuff with English versions of the same leaflet can be found on: http://www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/strateg/brfeed/nesb.htm http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/bfinfo/index.html The lady / group mentioned here can give you information of LLLI publications in Arabic (she is in Israel): http://www.lalecheleague.org/globalpublications.html#Arabic Medela has arabic leaflets all .pdf's available at: http://www.medela.com/NewFiles/bfdginfo.html I can't read this: http://go.to/breastfeeding , but they do have references to ICDC and WABA... Pictures and cartoons are appropriate... another site with Englis/Arabic http://www.rwh.org.au/wellwomens/whic.cfm?doc_id=2461 http://www.babyfriendly.org.uk/parents/arabic.asp (also available in English, Bengali, Gujarati , Hindi, Mirpuri, Punjabi, Spanish and Urdu) Just on HIV/AIDS and LAM: http://www.fhi.org/en/Topics/breastfeeding.htm You'll have to have an arabic-speaking colleague find the right page. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ccp/matls/irh.html If you do a google search with the words 'breastfeeding arabic' you will find the above links and many more. -- Heleen Hayes http://www.xs4all.nl/~hhayes *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html