30 THOUSAND PATIENTS WITH SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES RECORDED EACH YEAR IN ARMENIA
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
25.01.2010 17:58 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Every year 30 thousand patients with sexually
transmitted diseases recorded in Armenia. However, this figure is only
40 per cent of the actual number of cases, since very often doctors
provide treatment without informing our center," Gurgen Porsughyan
, head of organization and methodology department of the Armenian
Medical Center of Dermatology and Venereology told a press conference
on January 25.
According to Vrezh Shahramyan , doctor, sexologist, lecturer at
the Yerevan State Medical University, the only absolute protection
from sexually transmitted diseases is responsibility of people for
their actions.
Experts also mentioned that people’s attitude to the treatment of
sexually transmitted diseases recently changed. "If such diseases were
treated almost by force before, now people are applying us voluntarily,
" Gurgen Porsughyan said.