`ISRN Applied MathematicsVolume 2012 (2012), Article ID 864795, 25 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/864795`
Research Article

## HIV/AIDS Dynamics with Three Control Strategies: The Role of Incidence Function

1Mathematics Department, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2Department of Applied Mathematics, National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Received 3 March 2012; Accepted 29 April 2012

Academic Editors: H. Akçay, C. Lu, and G. Psihoyios

Copyright © 2012 Emmanuelina L. Kateme et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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