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| Paper Type | : | Research Paper |
| Title | : | The role of treatment and counseling in an HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis model: an analysis of HIV/AIDS and Malaria |
| Country | : | Kenya |
| Authors | : | Mark O. Okongo || Ochieng Ombaka |
ABSTRACT: HIV/AIDS remains one of the leading causes of death in the world with its effects most devastating in Sub Saharan Africa due to its dual infection with opportunistic infections especially malaria and tuberculosis. This study presents a co infection deterministic model defined by a system of ordinary differential equations for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The HIV/AIDS malaria co infection sub model is analyzed to determine the conditions for the stability of the equilibria points and assess the role of treatment and counseling in controlling the spread of the infections.
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