CycleTel: Family Planning via Mobile Phones

 
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Region: 
Asia-Pacific
Country: 
India
Partners: 
Georgetown University, Washington DC;
Institute for Reproductive Health India;
USAID;
Activities: 

This proof-of-concept aimed to assess the acceptability and feasibility of a mobile application called CycleTel. It supplies the Standard Days Method (SDM) directly to a user's cell phone. SDM is a fertility awareness-based method that requires the user to avoid unprotected sex during days 8-19 of her menstrual cycle. The study results from Lucknow and Delhi fed into project adaption and the pilot project went live in April 2011. A case details how IRH worked with FrontlineSMS in a first step to scaling-up and to test the CycleTel concept before proceeding with product development.

Further reading: 

FrontlineSMS & Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) 2011, Case Study, Georgetown University

Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) 2011, CycleTel: Effective Family Planning via Mobile Phones, Georgetown University

Puleio, M. & Jennings, V. 2011, CycleTel in India: From Proof-of-Concept to Deployment, Presentation to mHealth Working Group, Jan. 2011

Bhavsar, M. 2010, Family Planning through the Mobile Phone, No Doctor Necessary! Case-Study, MobileActive, 1 Oct. 2010

Lavoie, S. et al. 2009, Family Planning via Mobile Phones: Proof-of-Concept Testing in India (CycleTel), Presentation at the International Conference on Family Planning, Kampala, Uganda, 15-18 Nov. 2009

[added March 2010, updated Nov. 2011]

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