Since selling medicines online without authorization is illegal, online dealers have found ways to stay in the shadows. Using car-related code words, they sell an array of medicines ranging in price from $10 to $100 a pill. “This has been happening for at least three or four years,” said a member of a Venezuelan pro-choice NGO who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal. “Most of the vendors are either drug dealers or healthcare workers that take them from hospitals.”By Andrea Paola Hernández. Full Text -> TheGuardian

Venezuelan women face a lack of affordable contraceptives which has put their health at risk. Many Venezuelans have to choose between getting food and buying contraceptives due to the sky-high prices of birth control supplies. Full Video -> CNN