Abstract
Early sexual debut has always been associated with sexually transmitted infections. A mathematical model is developed to capture the effects of early sexual debut on HSV-2. The threshold parameters of the model are determined and stabilities are analysed. Analysis of the threshold quantity known as the reproduction number has shown that if the population is dominated by the young individuals, the prevalence of HSV-2 is faster as compared to the one dominated by the adult population. PRCCs and Latin Hypercube Sampling has been used to assess the amount of change inherent in the model as captured by the terms that define the threshold quantity. Furthermore, numerical simulations of the model show that early sexual debut has an effect of increasing HSV-2 prevalence within the general population.
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