Digital Health Localization in Pashto, Dari and 22 More Afghan Languages: Patient Portal, Health App and Telehealth Platform Translation

Yes. Whether your portal comes from your EHR vendor or was built in-house, we work from the text and content files it exports, such as XLIFF, JSON or spreadsheets, and return them translated, reviewed and ready to import. We then check the imported screens in both languages before patients see them.

No. Dari and Iranian Persian share a script and much of their grammar, but not their everyday health vocabulary, spelling habits or calendar month names. Afghan patients should see Afghanistan Dari. We never deliver Iranian Persian as Dari, and we flag it when we find it in an existing product.

As a draft, yes. Section 1557 requires a qualified human translator to review machine translation of critical, accuracy-essential or technical content, and most patient-facing health content meets that test. We review every machine-translated string before release. For review of AI output at scale, see our AI and machine translation quality review service.

Messages in Arabic script are sent in Unicode, which fits 70 characters in a single message instead of 160. A translated reminder often runs over and splits or truncates. We rewrite reminders to fit and test them on real phones.

We mirror the layout, set text direction for each element, keep numbers, doses and English terms in the right order, confirm the font carries every Pashto letter, and test on iOS, Android and the main browsers before release.

Many do. For patients who read little, often older adults and women who had few chances to attend school, audio and video reach further than text. We record in the variety your patients speak, with voices matched to the audience, and add subtitles in written Pashto and Dari.

Yes. Women's health content is translated, voiced and tested by women where patients expect it, and audio is recorded in the patient's own variety, such as central or Kandahari Pashto, or Kabuli, Herati or Hazaragi Dari.

Yes, with extra care. Many Afghan patients lived through the Afghan war, displacement and loss. Terms such as moral injury, sometimes searched as Afghan moral trauma, have no one-word equivalent in Pashto or Dari, so we adapt the meaning, test it with community members and write crisis wording with your clinical team. For live sessions, see our trauma-informed interpreting service.

Most interface strings contain no patient data. When a project involves protected health information, we sign a business associate agreement before anything is shared, and the work stays with our own team.

Yes. Section 504 and ADA Title II require WCAG 2.1 AA for covered web content and mobile apps, and the standard does not stop at English. For Pashto and Dari, that includes marking the language of each passage so screen readers read it correctly.

Yes, as a separate service: see telehealth and video remote interpreting in Pashto, Dari and 22 more Afghan languages.

No. The American Translators Association, which runs the main U.S. translator certification, offers no exam for translation from English into Pashto or Dari, and neither national medical interpreter certification body tests Pashto or Dari. Ariana Nexus sets its own standard instead: a degree held, assessment in the exact variety, medical training, professional ethics, annual HIPAA training, supervised entry and periodic review. We also train Afghan diaspora interpreters and students beyond our own team.

Start through the Initiate page. We begin with an inventory of your portal, app, messages and recordings, and a written review of where Afghan patients lose access today.