A population model applied to HIV transmission considering protection and treatment

An epidemiological population model is proposed to assess the impact of pro tection and/or treatment strategies applied to HIV infection. Sex-education campaigns are the available protection strategy, and drug (or association of drugs) administration is the treatment strategy considered. In this mode l we assumed recruitment and differential mortality rates for the homosexua l population. In addition to the classical threshold contact rate related t o the establishment of the disease, we obtained a threshold input rate.