MINNEAPOLIS, November 29, 2007—The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants has recently posted 13 health brochures in Haitian Creole, Farsi, Spanish, Swahili, and Hmong on their website. 

All the brochures are available for download free of charge. The topics covered in the 13 brochures are as follows:

1. HIV/AIDS prevention and stigma
2. STDs
3. Cold & flu
4. TB
5. Stop smoking
6. Diabetes
7. Heart disease
8. Obesity
9. Child obesity
10. PAP test and mammograms
11. Menstrual cycle
12. Patients rights
13. Emergency room

The brochures are also available in Arabic, Vietnamese, English, Somali, Kirundi, Russian, Karen, and Burmese. 

French, Amharic, and Bosnian translations will be made available within the next few weeks.

These brochures are a great tool to help fill in communication gaps between the service provider and the client. They are best utilized with verbal education, and should not be handed off without discussing the content with the client

Website: http://www.refugees.org/hltoolkit  

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