Potential Impact of Male Circumcision, Condom Use, and Microbicides on the Dynamics of HIV/AIDS

Table 2

Models parameters description.

Parameters	Description	Values	Source
𝛼	circumcision degree of protection	0.896	assumed
𝜃	reduction in infectiousness	0.94	assumed
𝜙	male circumcision rate	0.09	assumed
𝜇	natural death rate	0.037	Breban et al. [16]
𝜓	emigration rate	0.01 per year	assumed
𝜐	progression rate to AIDS	0.1	Perelson and Nelson (1999)
𝜌	disease-induced mortality rate	0.102	Brian et al. [16]
𝜎	proportion of male recruits	0.5	assumed
Λ	recruitment rate	0.03	assumed
𝜋	proportion of uncircumcised recruits	0.85	assumed
𝜖𝑠	circumcision efficacy	0.6	Auvert et al. [7]
𝛽𝑓	probability of transmission for females	0.039	assumed
𝛽𝑚	probability of transmission for males	0.2	assumed
𝐶𝑚, 𝐶𝑓	partner acquisition rate	3–5 partners/year	assumed
𝜔𝑓	effectiveness of microbicide	0.5–0.89	assumed
𝛾𝑓𝑚	condom effectiveness	0.82	Pinkerton and Abramson [6]