it is the ngos mostly the federation of reproductive health associations malaysia frham and its state members associations that have taken upon themselves a task of making contraceptives available at a subsidized cost private outlets sell a wide variety of contraceptives including emergency contraceptives but this option is reserved for those who can afford higher prices similarly in singapore with a decrease in subsidies to commodities and the closure of government family planning clinics in the mid s private sources pharmacies and drugstores have substituted public sources yap mui teng p