Teenage pregnancy is a social problem in Nigeria, whereby girls between the ages of 10-14 become pregnant by sexual intercourse after ovulation or first menstrual period. This article involves the fractional order mathematical model formulation describing the societal problem of teenage pregnancy in the sense of Caputo. The positivity, existence and uniqueness results of the model were established, and the two equilibria, which are the teenage pregnancy-free and teenage pregnancy-present equilibrium solutions of the model are presented. The graphical illustrations showing the behavior of the model variables when the basic reproduction number
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Mathematical Modelling and Control 2022, 2(4): 139-152
Published: 15 December 2022
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