00:00When Kalyani Kadam first got her period, she didn't know anything about it.
00:08She had a lot of misconceptions.
00:13My grandmother used to say, if a snake tastes the period blood from discarded sanitary pads,
00:19then you'll never get your period again and you'll never be able to have children.
00:23She found out only recently that that wasn't true, after asking an AI chatbot, because
00:28that time had come for her daughter too.
00:34When my daughter first got her period, I repeated what I had been told, that you'll have problems
00:38if any animal tastes your period blood.
00:41But then I asked the Menabola app about it, and it cleared up the misconception.
00:45I explained to my daughter that it was actually a superstition.
00:52As a super user of the ChatTPT-powered chatbot, she can also ask questions on behalf of other
00:58women.
00:59Now, whenever I have a question about periods, pregnancy or even mental health, we put it
01:07to the chatbot and get an answer.
01:12Whatever the women ask me, I put it in the chatbot and it replies.
01:17In India, AI chatbots like Menabolo, Snare.ai or JustAsk offer users medically accurate
01:23answers in a confidential and non-judgmental manner.
01:27The information in the Menabolo app comes from doctors who tailor it to regional needs.
01:32We have created a medical database and we have restricted it to the Indian context.
01:39For example, a user has asked that, oh, I've had relations and I don't want to conceive
01:45at the moment.
01:47What should I do?
01:48The obvious answer is that you can have ECP, emergency contraceptive pill.
01:53So the answer that could come from here is that you could take an ECP anywhere between
01:59five days of having relations.
02:01But in the Indian context, that would not work.
02:03The ECPs that are available here usually are working only for 72 hours.
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