DOES AWARENESS AND EXPERIENCE OF MALE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CHALLENGES AFFECT RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOURS OF MEN IN NIGERIA

Uyi E. Osadolor¹*, Emmanuel O. Amoo², Dominic O. Azuh³, Joy O. Nwosu⁴

¹Mr, Covenant University, Nigeria, uyiosadolore@gmail.com

²Dr, Covenant University, Nigeria, emma.amoo@covenantuniversity.edu.ng

³Dr, Covenant University, Nigeria, dominic.azuh@covenantuniversity.edu.ng

⁴Ms, Covenant University, Nigeria, joyonuchinwosu@gmail.com

*Corresponding author

 

Abstract

Risky sexual behaviours among men are well-evident in sub-Saharan Africa and there is a wide perspective that men awareness of reproductive diseases is low, despite rising prevalence of reproductive diseases. While there are literatures on risky sexual behaviours and prevalence of reproductive health diseases of men alone, little is known about whether awareness and experience of male reproductive challenges affect risky sexual behaviours of men in Lagos and Ogun States in Nigeria. This study therefore seeks to examine the awareness and experience of male reproductive challenges and how it affects risky sexual behaviours of men in Nigeria. Primary data was used for this study. Two levels of analysis namely univariate and multivariate was used to analyse the data. The univariate statistics involved descriptive statistics such as frequencies and means. The multivariate analysis involved the use of logistic regression technique to estimate whether awareness and experience of male reproductive challenges affect risky sexual behaviours of men in Nigeria. The result confirms that awareness and experience of reproductive health challenges affect risky sexual behaviour in men. This study helps policy makers, NGOs and government in emanating policies and legislation aimed at militating against risky sexual behaviours. Furthermore, NGOs and government could set up health centres which are for men’s reproductive and sexual health alone; this would encourage men to go for sexual and reproductive health screening.

Keywords: Risky sexual behaviours, male sexual behaviour, men’s reproductive challenges