Research Article
Modeling the Effect of Vaccination and Treatment on the Transmission Dynamics of Hepatitis B Virus and HIV/AIDS Coinfection
Table 1
Parameters and their description of the model.
| Parameters | Descriptions |
| | Natural death rate | | Recruitment rate of population into immunized class | | HIV/AIDS-induced mortality | | HBV-induced mortality | | HBV-HIV/AIDS-induced mortality | | Treatment rate for HBV-infected class | | Treatment rate for proportion of HIV/AIDS-infected individuals | | Treatment rate for HBV-HIV/AIDS-coinfected class | | Force of infection associated with HBV infection | | Force of infection associated with HIV/AIDS infection | | Recovery rate of individuals from HBV infection naturally in the class | | Recovery rate of individuals from HBV infection naturally from class | | Proportion of immunized population | | The proportion of HIV/AIDS-infected individuals progressing to treatment class | | The progress rate of HB-treated individuals to suppressed viral load class | | The progress rate of HIV/AIDS-treated individuals to suppressed viral load class | | The progress rate of HBV-HIV/AIDS-treated individuals to suppressed viral load class | | The effective contact rate for HBV transmission | | The effective contact rate for HIV transmission | | The vaccine efficacy wanes rate |
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