YEREVAN, DECEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS: The US International Development Agency (USAID) in cooperation with the Academy for Educational Development (AED) has developed a National Guideline for Management of Patients with Venereal Diseases and conducted training courses for 545 doctors delivering primary health services from all Armenian provinces.
The Guideline has been developed by the specialists from the Dermatology and Venereal Diseases Medical Center of the Armenian Health Ministry’s and is intended for dermatologists and venerologists, obstetrician-gynecologists, urologists, as well as doctors delivering primary health services, especially for family doctors and rural therapeutists. The doctors involved in the training courses have acquired skills in identifying and treating sexually transmitted diseases. Fifteen-thirty doctors from each province participated in the courses conducted by the specialists from the Dermatology and Venereal Diseases Medical Center.
Anush Yedigarian, the director of the Academy for Educational Development Armenian Office, said the guideline consists of two parts – etiological – treatment of pathogen and syndrome and symptomatic treatment. The methods presented are available both for a developed medical establishment with good laboratory and for doctors working in remote areas. According to her, the doctors have gained new knowledge and highly assessed the courses. The director of the Dermatology and Venereal Diseases Medical Center, leading dermatologist-venerologist Karen Babayan said up to now the treatment and prevention of venereal diseases was managed by the Armenian Health Ministry and World Health Organization’s directions and methods which have been used for already 5-10 years and have not been changed. There was no national guideline. According to him, as a rule, the guidelines should be changed once in 2 or 3 years as the methods of treatment and medicines are being improved incessantly. K. Babayan underscored the involvement of family doctors in the courses.
Within the frameworks of the program www.dermastikos.am Internet site has been created which will give the rural doctors an opportunity to get acquainted with the changes in the sphere. According to the Dermatology and Venereal Diseases Medical Center, 28,931 instances of venereal diseases were reported last year in Armenia. In general some 75 percent of people are believed to be aware about their disease, but only 65 percent seek qualified medical assistance and 35 percent are treated. Doctors explain that the low percentage of people who seek medical assistance is due not only to the lack of their sanitary and hygienic knowledge, but also due to the covert development of the illness because of which the patient does not apply to a doctor.
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