Abstract: Meningococcal Meningitis disease outbreak is a common phenomenon in the African Meningitis belt. The monumental death tolls resulting from the recurring outbreaks call for public health concern. Consequently, a deterministic model for the transmission dynamics of the disease which incorporates vaccination of the susceptibles and timely treatment of the infectives as control measures is considered. The problem is formulated as an optimal control problem with the goal of minimizing the annual incidence of the disease as well as the cost of..........
Key Word: Constraint equations, Meningococcal Meningitis, Objective functional, Optimality system, Pontryagin's Maximum Principle
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