TY - JOUR T1 - Review of SIR Epidemic Model with Application To Transmission Dynamics of HIV/AIDS in a Proportional Mixing Population AU - , Umar Mallam Abdulkarim JO - Research Journal of Applied Sciences VL - 2 IS - 5 SP - 595 EP - 599 PY - 2007 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1815-932x DO - rjasci.2007.595.599 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2007.595.599 KW - Basic reproductive number KW -infectivity kernel KW -HIV KW -AIDS KW -transmission rate KW -stability KW -vital dynamics KW -transmission dynamics KW -disease free-equilibrium point KW -endemic equilibrium point KW -transmissibility of the virus KW -epidemics AB - In this study, we examined, the Susceptibles-Infectives-Removed/Recovered, (SIR) epidemic model and applied it to horizontal transmission of HIV/AIDS in a homogeneous mixing population. with additional assumption that AIDS virus does not kill instead; AIDS-infectives are removed from circulation until death by non disease induced. Also the stability of the equilibrium points are examined via the basic reproductive number of the infection and trace-determinant condition of the Jacobian matrix at the equilibrium point, for a system of non-linear differential equation. The threshold conditions on the model parameters, which allows stability of the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium points are derived and their biological interpretations given. ER -