WhatsApp’s ‘Bol Behen’ Chatbot Will Help Adolescent Girls, Young Women With Health-Related Concerns Non Profit Girl Effect

New Delhi: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp on Wednesday launched an AI chatbot in India, in a bid to assist adolescent ladies and younger girls with considerations and queries round normal well being and sexual well-being. The AI chatbot named “Bol Behen” has been launched in collaboration with a non-profit named Lady Impact, and the “Hinglish” language chatbot offers adolescent ladies with a secure house to develop their data.

Bol Behen AI chatbot has been geared up with relatable and easy-to-understand content material on delicate matters similar to intercourse, relationships, and reproductive well being, which will likely be accessible on WhatsApp, the world’s hottest messaging platform that has greater than 487 million customers in India alone, based on Statista. Constructed on the WhatsApp Enterprise Platform, the chatbot is accessible 24/7 in Hinglish. To entry the bot, WhatsApp customers have to ship “Hello” to the quantity +917304496601 on WhatsApp or click on on this hyperlink https://wa.me/917304496601. 

“WhatsApp’s know-how presents us the chance to forge nearer hyperlinks between ladies and the well being providers they want, offering content material that solves her considerations and encourages her to entry healthcare, by way of reference to curated and vetted suppliers. This may assist us to ship extra seamless, personalised healthcare journeys sooner or later — for instance, main to women reserving appointments, getting reminders and sharing suggestions all inside Bol Behen,” Kanishk Kabiraj, Lady Impact Nation Lead for India, mentioned in an announcement.

First launched in India on Fb Messenger in 2020, Bol Behen AI chatbot reached greater than 100,000 conversations initiated with customers, with over 1.6 million messages acquired. By means of in-bot quizzes, Bol Behen was capable of shift data and attitudes round key sexual and reproductive well being matters.

Bol Behen chatbot is impressed by Lady Impact’s first chatbot named Large Sis that gives ladies in South Africa with non-judgmental recommendation on delicate points, together with intercourse and relationships, on platforms and channels they know, belief and love.