What is Standard Days Method® (SDM)?
Standard Days Method (SDM) is a modern, fertility awareness-based method of family planning that is 95% effective when used correctly and 88% with typical use.…
Guided and informed by the systems-oriented approach espoused in the ExpandNet scale-up framework, this compendium represents a distillation of knowledge and tools for scale-up monitoring,…
Welcome to the CycleBeads® Integration Guide, a resource for U.S.-based family planning programs who wish to integrate the Standard Days Method® (SDM), used with CycleBeads, into their services.
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Integration of Gender into Family Planning Programs
Systematic Scale-Up of Reproductive Health Innovations
Developing direct-to-consumer Approaches to Family Planning
The FAM Project builds upon the experience of previous USAID-funded projects in which IRH developed, tested and introduced fertility awareness-based methods (FAM) in diverse family planning programs in over 20 countries worldwide.
IRH provides technical assistance both in-country and internationally in social science research and project monitoring, learning, and evaluation.
Providing women with accurate information about their fertility can serve as the critical link that helps them make timely, healthy choices about family planning.
Expanding Family Planning Access, Availability, and Awareness
Fertility Awareness for Community Transformation
IRH has led the research and implementation of USAID’s natural family planning portfolio for several decades.
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Integrating the Standard Days Method® (SDM) into family planning programs provides an opportunity to test innovative strategies to engage...
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This self-instructional, self-paced course for USAID Population, Health and Nutrition Officers and Cooperating Agency staff addresses SDM basics, eligibility...
Keywords: Collar del Ciclo, Collier du Cycle, cyclebeads, MDF, Methode des Jours Fixes, Metodo de Dias Fijos, MJF, SDM,...
The article “Systems approach to monitoring and evaluation guides scale up of the Standard Days Method of family planning...
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Keywords: Collar del Ciclo, couple, cyclebeads, MDF, Metodo de Dias Fijos, SDM, Standard Days Method, Planned Parenthood, US, U.S.,...
Keywords: cyclebeads, e-blast, eblast, eNews, SDM, Standard Days Method, US
Keywords: cyclebeads, e-blast, eblast, eNews, SDM, Standard Days Method
Keywords: SDM, USAID, Standard Days Method
Keywords: Collar del Ciclo, cyclebeads, MDF, Metodo de Dias Fijos, SDM, Standard Days Method, training
Keywords: Collier du Cycle, CycleBeads, Malagassy, Methode des Jours Fixes, MJF, SDM, Standard Days Method
Keywords: Collier du Cycle, CycleBeads, Gender, male involvement, Methode des Jours Fixes, MJF, SDM, Standard Days Method, flier, Rwanda
Keywords: CycleBeads, Standard Days Method, SDM, Bolivia, Collar del Ciclo, Metodo de Dias Fijos, MDF, Flier
Keywords: CycleBeads, Standard Days Method, SDM, Bolivia, Collar del Ciclo, Metodo de Dias Fijos, MDF, Poster
Keywords: CycleBeads, Standard Days Method, SDM, DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo, Collier du Cycle, Methode des Jours Fixes, MJF
SDM, Standard Days Method, Paper, Benin, C-Change
This study assesses the competency and acceptability of community-based provision of Standard Days Method (SDM) to first-time users in...
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The Cost of Integrating the Standard Days Method (SDM) into Family Planning Programs at Scale and of Providing the...
Keywords: French, Spanish, Collar del Ciclo, Collier du Cycle, cyclebeads, MDF, Methode des Jours Fixes, Metodo de Dias Fijos,...
Time to Completion: 2 Hours The Standard Days Method Webinar is intended for providers. To complete the webinar, first...
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Programs need to undertake a number of steps to ensure that SDM is successfully introduced and made part of...
In 2002, the MOH invited IRH to conduct a pilot study of the acceptability and feasibility of introducing the...
This executive summary and full report present conclusions from a six-year, five-country initiative conducted by the Institute for Reproductive...
Since the early 2000s, the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University (IRH) has introduced and tested the Standard...
The mere availability of family planning (FP) services is not sufficient to improve reproductive health; services must also be...
Keywords: French, CycleBeads, Collier du Cycle
Keywords: cyclebeads, Standard Days Method, Trainer’s guide
Keywords: cyclebeads, Standard Days Method
How the introduction of the Standard Days Method® of family planning has impacted lives in five countries Most Significant...
This initiative explored whether remote trainings via Interactive Voice Response (IVR) enabled technology could be used to successfully train...
This brief shares a story of achievement, highlighting how the Standard Days Method® (SDM) reached nationwide coverage in Rwanda’s...
Keywords: Standard Days Method, French, Collier du Cycle, CycleBeads
Keywords: Spanish, CycleBeads, Collar del Cyclo
Keywords: Standard Days Method, Lactational Amenorrhea Method, CycleBeads, CHW, Community Health Worker, Comic, India, training
By examining the case of SDM, this brief captures how each building block of the WHO health systems strengthening...
Offering CycleBeads®: A Toolkit for Training Community Health Workers is a resource for those who train or supervise community...
In June 2002, the USAID Mission in Rwanda invited the Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) AWARENESS Project...
This long-term follow-up study sought to learn more about Standard Days Method® (SDM) use beyond the six or 12...
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Since 2011, Nepal’s modern method contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) has stagnated at 43% (NDHS, 2011 and 2016). Over the...
Keywords: Bambara, Collier du Cycle, Methode des Jours Fixes, MJF, SDM, standard days method, SDM, insert, French, directives
Keywords: Collar del Ciclo, Collier du Cycle, CycleBeads, MDF, Methode de Jours Fixes, Metodo de Dias Fijos, MJF, SDM, Standard...
Though population surveys in Nepal continue to show a declining total fertility rate (TFR), the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR)...
The Standard Days Method Online Training is a self-instructional course designed to offer healthcare professionals a comprehensive orientation on...
Keywords: Collar del Ciclo, cyclebeads, MDF, Metodo de Dias Fijos, SDM, Standard Days Method, U.S.
Keywords: cyclebeads, SDM, Standard Days Method
Keywords: MDF, Methode des Jours Fixes, Metodo de Dias Fijos, MJF, SDM, Spanish, French, L’importance du dépistage et du...
This brochure developed by Tri-City Health Center and IRH helps couples use the Standard Days Method of family planning...
This client card developed by Tri-City Health Center and IRH explains CycleBeads, the tool used with the Standard Days...
Keywords: Lactational Amenorrhea Method, LAM, Natural Family Planning, SDM, Standard Days Method, TDM, TwoDay Method
Keywords: Collar del Ciclo, Collier du Cycle, cyclebeads, MDF, MJF, SDM, Spanish, French, Arevalo, Jennnings, Sinai, Efficacité d’une nouvelle...
This handbook includes a chapter on fertility awareness-based methods of family planning, highlighting the Standard Days Method® and TwoDay...