• ELLES, created in 2022, offers cycle tracking, contraception information and cancer-prevention alerts.

• The app distributes continuous health content and guides women in daily reproductive-health management.

• Founder Viviane Oké, a Beninese medical doctor, combines medicine and digital-health strategy to support women’s autonomy.

Viviane Oké introduces a digital solution that strengthens the health autonomy of its users. She deploys a tool that reshapes how women receive support in their daily health management.

Oké, known as Dr. V, is a Beninese medical doctor active in the digital-health sector. She serves as chief executive of ELLES, an application she founded with a group of young Beninese doctors to improve reproductive-health monitoring for women.

ELLES, created in 2022, focuses on reproductive health. The application enables girls and women to track their menstrual cycles and access information on contraceptive methods. It distinguishes natural methods and details their benefits and potential side effects.

The platform also supports breast-cancer prevention by sending alerts at the optimal moment for self-examination and by providing a detailed guide. An integrated news feed delivers a continuous flow of content on the body, sexual health and reproductive health.

Oké graduated from the Faculty of Health Sciences in Cotonou, where she earned her medical doctorate. She also completed a master’s degree in international project management in October 2025 at Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt.

She worked as a medical translator in 2021 for Smile Train, an international children’s organization. She served in 2022 as a fintech-technology consultant for the GIZ office in Benin. In February 2025, she worked as a physician at Clinique Patte d’Oie in Cotonou.

This article was initially published in French by Melchior Koba

Adapted in English by Ange Jason Quenum