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An In vitro Co-infection Model to Study Plasmodium falciparum-HIV-1 Interactions in Human Primary Monocyte-derived Immune Cells
Published on: August 15, 2012
Contribution to the study of a pre-exposure prophylaxis HIV model
Thomas Martin1, Jianhong Wu2, Laurent Pujo Menjouet3
1LBBE - Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558, Villeurbanne, France. thomas.martin@univ-lyon1.fr.
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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is a new treatment against HIV spread consisting of taking antiretrovirals to prevent HIV infection. Silva (Discret Contin Dyn Syst Ser S 11:119-141, 2017) introduced a mathematical model of HIV spread including PrEP. Here we propose to complete their work by including the PrEP parameter in the basic reproduction number of the system. To do so, we study stability changes through the influence of this new parameter. We also prove the global stability of the steady states of the system in this new case using Lyapunov functions. Finally, we extend the stability to cases where death induced by AIDS is non-zero using exponential attractors to make the model more applicable to real-life scenarios.

