Afrikaans Medical Translation Services

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. It has Dutch origins, and it was spoken by Dutch settlers in southwest South Africa. It gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics during the 18th century. Hence, it is the daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans is the mother tongue of 7.2 million people, and another 10.3 million people speak the language as a second language.

We are an exclusively specialized medical content translation company, medicine, clinical trials, pharmaceuticals, and in between, are our specialty.

Novimed is a leading medical translation service provider for Afrikaans. Therefore, we have the largest and most specialized team of Afrikaans Medical linguistic experts, Afrikaans DTP experts, Afrikaans native clinicians, Afrikaans medical writers, Afrikaans medical transcriptionists, and Afrikaans medical interpreters.

Novimed has long-term experience in Afrikaans medical translation services.

Our Afrikaans team is well trained and educated on the various international and local regulatory requirements related to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, clinical trials, and healthcare. Furthermore, we have a deep understanding of the local regulations including- The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority’s requirements. As a specialized medical language service provider, we get down to the specificities of each project. Our teams are divided according to medical domain expertise, as well as specific field experience (For example in pharmaceutical translations materials are divided into Clinical trial content, manufacturing content, packaging content, marketing content, etc.).

We are ISO 17100 certified, Therefore, our process is fully compliant with the highest international quality assurance standards. Our Afrikaans Translation team is managed by an experienced native Afrikaans medical linguist alongside Afrikaans medical QA specialist and validated experienced Afrikaans translators. Furthermore, according to the working plan and specific regulations our team includes native Afrikaans clinicians, native Afrikaans health care providers, native Afrikaans clinical researchers, etc.

Additionally, to the professional Afrikaans team and customized methodology, our quality assessment process consists of both human review and technologic QA system checks (our in-house built system-Vagus QA). Both QA measures work according to J2450 Translation Quality Metric.

Novimed is the only language service provider that has medically customized language management systems.

Vagus TM – Our software, can provide you with the ultimate user experience in the domain. From full control over your projects, live translation follow-up, project history, built-in medical translation memory, medically customized machine translation, QA systems, payment automation, and more.

Valitracks – Our linguistic validation and usability testing software, will provide you with infield data about the quality of the translation, layout, and design. Any pieces that local Afrikaans speakers cannot understand or don’t favor will be adapted accordingly.