Table 3 Attitudes towards cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment among PLHIV and non-PLHIV in Nigerian tertiary health institutions
Attitude | Substantial finding | Illustrative quotes |
|---|---|---|
Attitude towards cancer diagnosis | Fear | “Once I hear cancer I feel very scared” PLWA respondent |
Attitude towards risk of cancer among PLHIV | Disbelief | “It is not possible that someone who has HIV can have cancer, I do not believe it” PLHIV respondent |
Attitude towards cancer treatment | Fatalism | “The endpoint of cancer is death,” non-PLHIV respondent |
|  | Denial | “It is only God who is supernatural that can treat this disease” non-PLHIV respondent |
Attitude towards individual cancer risk |  | “.me I no fit get cancer for my body” PLHIV respondent. sic- (I cannot get cancer) |