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Standard Days Method as a new family planning norm found full support when the Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Shri P.K. Hota, endorsed the method while addressing the National-level Stakeholders’ Meeting on the Standard Days Method-From Research to Practice, here today. He said that it was a new method which could well be tried and a campaign launched throughout the country to create mass awareness. Shri Hota said the services of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) who are engaged at the ground level under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) could be utilized to popularize and explain about the new family planning norm. He said that besides being new, it was totally inexpensive and an easy to use natural family planning method.
The one-day meeting was organized by the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) and the Institute of Reproductive Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
The Standard Days Method identifies a fixed fertile window in the menstrual cycle and helps users to be aware of the days pregnancy can occur. Users of this natural method can rely on CycleBeads, a color-coded set of beads, to help identify fertile (Days 8 through 19) and non-fertile days and monitor cycle length.
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