GOVERNMENT APPROVES NATIONAL PLANS OF ACTIONS TO IMPROVE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
ARMENPRESS
Jul 26, 2007
YEREVAN, JULY 26, ARMENPRESS: Armenian government has approved
today a national plan of actions and a timetable designed to improve
reproductive health in 2007-2015. The $8.6 million worth program will
be funded by international organizations.
The plan will focus on cutting the number of cancerous diseases
affecting reproductive organs, reducing the number of sexually
transmitted diseases, infertility rate and abortions, as well as on
improving pre-natal care and control.
Deputy health minister Hayk Darbinian told after the government
session that the plan of actions is aimed also to improve demographic
indices, which declined since 1990-s. He said a special focus will
be on encouraging families to have more children.
Armenia’s chief gynecologist Razmik Abrahamian said only 1 percent
of pregnant women give birth to children at domestic conditions. He
said also maternity death rate fell drastically from 1990-s when an
average of 40 cases were reported to 3 cases this year.
He said the so-called secondary infertility rate is very high, caused
largely by abortions and sexually transmitted diseases. Next year a
massive investigation into infertility reasons will be conducted.