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NUMBER OF DISEASED WITH INFECTIONS, TRANSFERRED IN SEXUAL WAY, INCREASED IN ARMENIA BY 48% FOR LAST 6 YEARS
ARMINFO News Agency
September 18, 2006 Monday
The number of diseased with infections, transferred in a sexual
way, has increased in Armenia by 48% since 2000, the Director of the
Scientific-Medical Center of Dermatology and STI (sexually transferred
infections), professor Karen Babayan told ArmInfo correspondent.
Talking of a small number of those diseased with syphilis (the
intensive indicator of the morbidity has reduced from 8.5% to 2.6%
per 100,000 of population), the professor noted the venereal diseases
have got the tendency to go in a hidden form, as a result of which
the potential carriers of syphilis or gonorrhoea do not suspect of
their disease. K. Babayan informed a growth of morbidity among the
under-age is observed in Armenia the recent years, which arouse an
anxiety concerning the fact that the infections, transferred in a
sexual way, negatively reflect the reproductive function of the young
organism.
ARMINFO News Agency
September 18, 2006 Monday
The number of diseased with infections, transferred in a sexual
way, has increased in Armenia by 48% since 2000, the Director of the
Scientific-Medical Center of Dermatology and STI (sexually transferred
infections), professor Karen Babayan told ArmInfo correspondent.
Talking of a small number of those diseased with syphilis (the
intensive indicator of the morbidity has reduced from 8.5% to 2.6%
per 100,000 of population), the professor noted the venereal diseases
have got the tendency to go in a hidden form, as a result of which
the potential carriers of syphilis or gonorrhoea do not suspect of
their disease. K. Babayan informed a growth of morbidity among the
under-age is observed in Armenia the recent years, which arouse an
anxiety concerning the fact that the infections, transferred in a
sexual way, negatively reflect the reproductive function of the young
organism.