They are seeking medical help in avoiding pregnancy. Medical services for women in this troubled province are limited. Prenatal care is not available in rural areas. There is no preventive health care or routine testing. Women with cancer are basically sent home to die.
Health education is difficult here.
Few young women have been inoculated for anything. Women are reluctant to get tetanus shots because of rumors that Serbian doctors used to give unsuspecting Albanian women sterilization shots to limit the Albanian population. Unfortunately, after the war, there were a lot of cases of infant tetany because the fetus had not gotten any immunity while in the womb. For unmarried girls, the most common form of birth control is abortion, by a doctor, by an older woman, or self-inflicted. It would be considered too shameful for a young unmarried woman to have a child out of wedlock.