Especially children and pregnant women need to have access to sufficient proteins and essential amino acids. Those severe social and economic conditions have primarily affected Armenian women and children. Among the most vulnerable strata of population appeared pregnant women. Within the last decade the case of anemia sharply increased. As a result of malnutrition and harmful environmental factors, many children are born with hypothrophy.
Pregnant women suffer from frequent miscarriages and other pathologies.
Starting 1990 Armenia encountered a problem of starving children. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union did not have the problem of toxic dystrophy among the children. This appeared as a consequence of malnutrition. The starvation and malnutrition has mainly affected the children from vulnerable families, whose parents are unemployed for a prolonged period of time. The decreased immunity of children causes severe diarrhea, which promotes the deterioration of the children's health.