Abstract B70: Perception of contraceptive use among black people infected with prostate cancer in high risk urban poor population in Africa

Prostate cancer is a growing public health challenge in Africa, the pandemic affects every individual including healthy person especially the black people. To combat sexually transmitted infections among prostate cancer infected black people, contraceptive-use is effective measure to interrupt any transmission. However, perception of black people about contraceptive usefulness has been limited to research. This study therefore examined prostate cancer among black population in Africa

The study was cross-sectional in design. A multi-stage-stratified-random-sampling technique were adopted to select 400 adults aged 25years and above in Nigeria. A pre-tested questionnaire developed from results of 10 focus-group-discussions (FGD) was used to collect information. FGD and questionnaire data were analyzed thematically and descriptively using chi-square statistics respectively.

Twenty-five percent of the participants who were sexually active, one year preceding the study had multiple premarital-sex. Among the subgroup that had multiple premarital-sex, only few (6.8%) used a contraception in the episode. More males (5.3%) than females (1.5%) used contraception in last premarital-sex (p<0.5). Non-contraceptive use was due to confidence in traditional herbs perceived to prevent prostate cancer. Similarly, FGD participants were unanimous in their opinion visiting tradomedicine dealers and the believe (10.3%) herbs/concussion-use could prevent prostate cancer.

Risky sexual engagement among black people could be a distortion to prostate cancer reduction, because safe sex practices among this population was unimportant based on perception. In order to mitigate prostate cancer in Africa, information on safe-sex practices among young people are needed to address this misconception.

Note: This abstract was not presented at the conference.

Citation Format: King Odor Odor. Perception of contraceptive use among black people infected with prostate cancer in high risk urban poor population in Africa. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Seventh AACR Conference on The Science of Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; Nov 9-12, 2014; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2015;24(10 Suppl):Abstract nr B70.