Male Circumcision: A Means to Reduce HIV Transmission between Truckers and Female Sex Workers in Kenya
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چکیده
Kenya records over 1.5 million cases of HIV-infected people with a prevalence 4.8% among adultsin 2019, ranking as the seventh-largest HIV population in world. A recent study showed that55.9% Kenyan truckers pay for sex while 46.6% had regular partner along their trucking route inaddition to wife or girlfriend at home. The complexity sexual network Truckers, which can be aconduit widespread HIV, necessitated need better understand dynamics transmissionof HIV/AIDS between and female workers. In this study, model is formulated HIV/AIDSdynamics Northern corridor highway Kenya. reproduction number, disease-free equilibriumand endemic equilibrium points were determined stabilities also using nextgenerationmatrix method. stable when R0u < 1, R0c 1 R0f whilethe point > 1. It found that circumcision canbe used an intervention minimize infection
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of mathematical analysis and modeling
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2709-5924']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48185/jmam.v3i1.424