“We're living through an economic crisis,” Zuniga explains, saying the financial disaster has “caused the shortages of many things, including condoms and other kinds of contraceptive.”

The crisis she refers to – the economy has shrunk by a third since 2013 – has hit the country very hard. Venezuelans have experienced hyperinflation, an economic event where prices skyrocket in a short period of time and the currency devalues so much that it is essentially worthless. In Venezuela, the price of various goods has doubled on average every 26 days.

Millions of people have left the country, crossing into neighbouring Colombia in search of food and work. Those who stayed behind have to endure shortages of basic goods and rolling power outages.

One of the drivers for extreme inflation is soaring demand – in Venezuela there are far more people trying to buy goods from shops than there are goods out on the shelves.

And this, says Zuniga, has even changed the way people are having sex. “In Venezuela, some people are using old-fashioned ways to avoid getting pregnant and when I said old-fashioned ways, it's like the withdrawal method or the rhythm method, which is tracking your menstrual history to predict when you'll ovulate.”

With this has come a rise in unplanned pregnancies, STDs and HIV, she adds.

Because contraceptive pills have become so expensive, there has been a spike in the number of women taking more permanent measures to ensure they don’t have any more children.