Condoms are sold in Venezuela for $ 2,068

In addition to the queues to purchase basic items, like sugar, chicken and even toilet paper, Venezuelans face the lack of another product important: condom. And worse: it's hard to pay for them, according to published on Wednesday to Bloomberg.
"The country is in such a mess that now we have to wait in line to have sex," said a Venezuelan to reporting.
The collapse in oil prices, which represents 95% of foreign exchange earnings in the country, exacerbated the lack of products such as nappies, deodorants and the aforementioned condom, according to the site.
Condoms and other contraceptives disappeared from drugstores since December last year.
But in the parallel market, there are still buying. The site, used by MercadoLibre Venezuelans to obtain scarce products, a package with 36 units of condom Trojan can be acquired by 4,760 bolivars, around R $ 2068,70.
The value corresponds to a good part of the Venezuelan minimum wage, which is 5,600 bolivars.
Some pharmacies still have condoms and birth control pills, but the products are not of consumer confidence. Made in Asia, nor the country's pharmacists recommend.
Public health
The lack of condoms goes far beyond sexual relations.
The Venezuela has one of the highest rates of infection by the virus HIV and teen pregnancy in South America.
"The lack of these products every threat prevention programs across the country," said a representative of the NGO StopHIV Bloomberg.
Other experts heard by the Bloomberg report warn of the possible increase in cases of deaths of women who go to clandestine abortion clinics.
They still remembered the economic impact caused by the lack of condoms, since youngsters would be away from schools and the labour market due to pregnancy.