The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has decided to make the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra applicable for coverage by national health insurance from April, but only for use in fertility treatments.
The move was approved earlier in the day by the Central Social Insurance Medical Council, an advisory body to the health minister.
It will become part of national health insurance coverage for fertility treatments that will start at the beginning of new fiscal year in April. The insurance will only cover cases in which there is a diagnosis of "male sterility due to erectile dysfunction."
