Multicultural resources
Diabetes NSW & ACT has a range of multicultural resources designed to help people from non-English speaking backgrounds better understand and manage their diabetes. These include booklets, pamphlets and websites covering a range of topics including:
- Making healthy food choices
- Community sharps
- Diabetes in Pregnancy
- Interpreting services
- The NDSS Information in Your Language landing page.
Making healthy food choices
The Making Healthy Food Choices Guide includes photographs and images of hundreds of different foods to help you understand how healthy eating will help you manage your diabetes. Each guide contains culturally specific foods and includes the English description and translation on the same page.
Download your copy:
- English –Pictorial
- Europe – Ελληνικά Greek, Italiano Italian, Español Spanish
- Middle East – عربي Arabic
- Asia – 简体中文 Chinese, Việt Vietnamese
Community sharps information leaflets
Disposing of sharps safely is important for the health and well being of the community. Download a copy of our helpful information leaflet available in a range of different languages.
- Europe: Greek, Italian, Turkish
- Indian sub-continent: Bengali, Nepali, Tamil
- Middle East: Arabic, Dari, Farsi
- Asia: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Vietnamese, Korean, Thai
Diabetes in pregnancy
For women living with diabetes the best preparation for a healthy pregnancy starts with getting the right information and advice. These videos and factsheets contain important information for women of child bearing age in:
- Cantonese 繁體中文
- Mandarin 简体中文
- Urdu اردو
- Bengali বাঙালি
- Nepali मधुमेह
- Arabic عربي
Interpreter services
A free telephone interpreter service is available for people who may have difficulty speaking English. Phone the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450 for access to professional interpreters in almost 2,000 languages and dialects.
NDSS Information in Your Language
The NDSS Information in Your Language landing page contains translated diabetes resources in several languages. These resources provide information to help people confidently self-manage their diabetes. The resources are available in:
- Arabic عربي
- Bengali বাঙালি
- Chinese simplified (Mandarin) 简体中文
- Chinese traditional (Cantonese) 繁體中文
- Dari – درى
- Farsi فارسی
- Greek Ελληνικά
- Hindi हिंदी
- Italian Italiano
- Karen
- Khmer ភាសាខ្មែរ
- Korean 한국어
- Macedonian Македонски
- Nepali – नेपाली
- Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
- Samoan Samoa
- Somali – Soomaali
- Spanish Español
- Sinhalese සිංහල
- Tagalog
- Tamil தமிழ்
- Thai – ภาษาไทย
- Tongan – lea faka-Tonga
- Turkish Türkçe
- Urdu اردو
- Vietnamese Việt
