The health care system does not pay sufficient attention to the health problems of girls or those of older women past the age of reproduction. Although abortion remains illegal, family planning services do not receive a sufficient share of financial support from the government. Family planning services generally are not provided in the public health care system. There are too few non-governmental family planning associations to meet all of society's needs in this respect. Women do not have adequate access to contraception because of the lack of state subsidies that would make contraceptives affordable, the insufficient knowledge of contraception within the medical community and the lack of state programs to educate women about it.
Sterilization is illegal as a method of family planning.
In March 1998, the new Government withdrew the subsidies for five contraceptives that the previous government had introduced in 1997. These financial impediments to reproductive health have a serious impact on women's family planning choices. Pregnant women with health problems. Pregnant women whose pregnancies constitute a danger to health face problems in obtaining the necessary termination services. Some women have even died as a result.