CycleBeads® Integration*Guide A Toolkit for Family Planning Programs
World Health Organization, How to Procure CycleBeads: a Visual Tool for the Standard Days Method A proven Effective Natural Family Planning Method, June 2012
USAID, FAM Project IRH Georgetown University, Standard Days Method of Family Planning Provider Job Aids Packet for counseling clients, Fourth Edition – August 2009.
Jennings, V, and Lundgren R., Global Health Technical Briefs, Standard Days Method: A Simple, Effective Natural Method, USAID, produced in association with The Maximizing Access and Quality Initiative, Last Revised: September 13, 2004.
Cachan, Jeannette, SDM® and CycleBeads®: Reaching Clients with Fertility Awarenes Methods A Trainer’s Manual, USAID, FAM Project, First edition 2008.
Cachan, Jeannette, SDM® and CycleBeads®: Reaching Clients with Fertility Awareness Methods, Participant Notebook, USAID, FAM Project, First edition 2008.
Arevalo, M. et al., Efficacy of a New Method of Family Planning: the Standard Days Method, Contraception 65 (2002) 333-338.
Arevalo, M. et al., A Fixed Formula to Define the Fertile Window of the Menstrual Cycle as the Basis of a Simple Method of Natural Family Planning, Contraception 60 (1999); 357-60.
Arevalo, et. al., SDM Basics, What Is SDM?, IRH Georgetown University, 1999.
The WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria Wheel for Contraceptive Use (2015)
A tool that makes it easy to identify medical eligibility for use of family planning methods.
The Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (3rd Edition 2016).
This resource provides guidance on how to use contraceptive methods safely and effectively, once they are deemed to be medically appropriate.
The Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (5th edition 2015).
This resource provides guidance on whether people with certain medical conditions can safely and effectively use specific contraceptive methods.
Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers (2022 update)
This book serves as a quick-reference resource for all level of health care workers. It provides practical guidance on delivering family planning methods appropriately and effectively.
