Latest WHO handbook presents family planning options for women around the world
Jul 10, 2007 - 4:00:00 AM
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To use CycleBeads to follow the Standard Days Method, a woman moves a black rubber ring over a series of color-coded beads that represent her fertile and low fertility days. The day a woman starts her period she puts the rubber ring on CycleBeads red bead. Each day she moves the ring one bead, always in the direction of the arrow. When the ring is on the red bead or a dark bead, there is very low likelihood of pregnancy. When the ring is on a glow-in-the-dark white bead - Days 8 through 19 - there is a high likelihood of getting pregnant. CycleBeads also helps a woman know if her cycle length is in the range (26-32 days long) for using this method effectively.
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By Georgetown University Medical Center,
[RxPG] Washington, DC The recently released Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers includes a chapter on fertility-awareness based methods of family planning highlighting the Standard Days Method and the TwoDay Method, two family-planning methods developed by Georgetown University Medical Centers Institute for Reproductive Health, as effective, easy-to-use and without the health risks of chemically based family planning methods such as birth control pills.
The publication, developed by the World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins University, and the United States Agency for International Development, is used by family planning providers worldwide, especially in developing countries.
With the inclusion of the Standard Days and TwoDay Methods in the WHO family planning handbook for providers, we anticipate that many more providers around the world will offer fertility awareness methods, thereby increasing womens access to these effective, easy-to-use, low-cost options, said Victoria Jennings, Ph.D., co-developer of the methods and director of the Institute for Reproductive Health. She is also professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Georgetown University Medical Center.
Utilizing data from sophisticated computer modeling of reproductive physiology and field studies, the Georgetown researchers developed the Standard Days Method and CycleBeads, the simple visual aid used by women who follow the Standard Days Method. They enable a woman to identify the 12-day fertile window of her menstrual cycle. These 12 days take into account the life span of the woman's egg (about 24 hours) and the viable life of sperm (about 5 days) as well as the variation in the actual timing of ovulation. In a clinical trial, the Standard Days Method proved to be more than 95 percent effective with correct use, similar to other user-directed methods such as the pill. Because this natural method identifies all of the fertile days, it also helps couples who want a pregnancy to achieve their goal.
To use CycleBeads to follow the Standard Days Method, a woman moves a black rubber ring over a series of color-coded beads that represent her fertile and low fertility days. The day a woman starts her period she puts the rubber ring on CycleBeads red bead. Each day she moves the ring one bead, always in the direction of the arrow. When the ring is on the red bead or a dark bead, there is very low likelihood of pregnancy. When the ring is on a glow-in-the-dark white bead - Days 8 through 19 - there is a high likelihood of getting pregnant. CycleBeads also helps a woman know if her cycle length is in the range (26-32 days long) for using this method effectively.
The TwoDay Method employs a very different approach to identifying the fertile days of a womans menstrual cycle. TwoDay Method users monitor the presence or absence of cervical secretions. Women then use a simple formula to determine whether they should consider themselves fertile on a specific day. Georgetown studies have found this method to be 96 percent effective.
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