Dynamics of an HIV model with cytotoxic T-lymphocyte memory

We consider a four-dimensional HIV model that includes healthy cells, infected cells, primary cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response (CTLp), and secondary cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response (CTLe). The CTL memory generation depends on CD4+ T-cell help, and infection of CD4+ T cells results in impaired T-cell help. We show that the system has up to five equilibria. By the Routh–Hurwitz theorem and central manifold theorem we obtain some sufficient conditions for the local stability, globally stability of the equilibria, and the bifurcations. We still discover the bistability case where in the system there may coexist two stable equilibria or a stable equilibrium together with a stable limit cycle. Several numerical analyses are carried out to illustrate the validity of our theoretical results.