YEREVAN. – There are approximately forty types of infertility disorders whose twenty-two are linked to women and eighteen are connected with men, Armenian Association for Reproductive Health Director, gynecologist Eduard Hambardzumyan said during a press conference on Tuesday. In his words, 50 percent of these problems have to do with women, 40 percent with men, and 10 percent could occur in both.   

Hambardzumyan informed that in recent times he comes across more problems among the men and this, in all probability, is also conditioned on the fact that more men in Armenia have started consulting physicians in connection with fertility problems. According to the gynecologist’s data, around 9,000 people in Armenia need artificial insemination. But he stressed that since a correct fiscal policy is lacking and the entire burden is put solely upon the couples, they are unable to help them. As a result, 70 percent of Armenia’s infertile couples have no means for being treated.         

The press conference’s other speaker, the aforesaid association’s deputy director, gynecologist Karine Pokhunts, added that the reproductive functions of the majority of Armenia’s present-day infertile couples were formed during the “dark and cold” years in the 1990s. Also, Pokhunts underscored the need for state assistance to this domain. “It’s just that the state means are directed to those couples without fertility issues, and, instead, they are encouraging a growth in childbirth,” Karine Pokhunts added.