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Canada

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Canadian Contraception Consensus Chapter 4 Natural Family Planning [2015]

Developing countries

• European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
  • The role of the Standard Days Method in modern family planning services in developing countries [2012]

Ghana

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Use of Fertility Awareness-Based Methods for Pregnancy Prevention Among Ghanaian Women: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey [2021]

Haiti

• BMC Women's Health
  • Knowledge of the ovulatory cycle and its determinants among women of childbearing age in Haiti: a population-based study using the 2016/2017 Haitian Demographic Health Survey [2023]

International

• Contraception
  • Does the evidence support global promotion of the calendar-based Standard Days MethodŽ of contraception? [2016]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Global Health
  • Lactational amenorrhoea among adolescent girls in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review [2020]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Implementation and Scale-Up of the Standard Days Method of Family Planning: A Landscape Analysis [2020]

• mHealth
  • Market-testing a smartphone application for family planning: assessing potential of the CycleBeads app in seven countries through digital monitoring [2018]

Poland

• Ginekologia Polska
  • Evaluation of the effectiveness of selected natural fertility symptoms used for contraception: estimation of the Pearl index of Lady-Comp, Pearly and Daysy cycle computers based on 10 years of observation in the Polish market [2016]

Rwanda

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Systems approach to monitoring and evaluation guides scale up of the Standard Days Method of family planning in Rwanda [2014]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Women's Health
  • Individual and community-level determinants of knowledge of ovulatory cycle among women of reproductive age in 29 African countries: a multilevel analysis [2022]

Sweden

• BMJ Open
  • Typical use effectiveness of Natural Cycles: postmarket surveillance study investigating the impact of previous contraceptive choice on the risk of unintended pregnancy [2019]

Uganda

• BMJ Open
  • Knowledge and use of lactational amenorrhoea as a family planning method among adolescent mothers in Uganda: a secondary analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys between 2006 and 2016 [2022]

United Kingdom

• Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Fertility Awareness Methods [2015]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Natural Cycles for monitoring fertility [2021]

United States

• Food and Drug Administration
  • FDA allows marketing of first direct-to-consumer app for contraceptive use to prevent pregnancy [2018]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • How to procure CycleBeads: a visual tool for the Standard Days Method [2012]

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• Guidelines
  • Family planning, contraception