HIV and Zika in Pregnancy: Past and Present Challenges
Carmen D. Zorrilla, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Principal Investigator: Maternal-Infant Studies Center
University of Puerto Rico (UPR) School of Medicine, San Juan, PR
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Dr Zorrilla is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Academy of HIV Medicine. Dr Zorrilla has played a leading role in the UPR Ob-Gyn Department service and research response to the emerging Zika epidemic among pregnant women in Puerto Rico, where she helped establish a multidisciplinary clinic for pregnant women with Zika, and is the Principal Investigator from San Juan for the NIH sponsored Zika International Pregnancy Study (ZIP). She has served as the PI for a Longitudinal Women’s HIV Clinic and for several other clinical trials including Empowerment interventions. Under Dr Zorrilla’s supervision, the transmission rate of HIV infection among the more than 500 infants born to pregnant women living with HIV during the past 12 years at the UPR clinic has been zero, and she has also contributed to Puerto Rico’s success in eliminating the perinatal HIV transmission. She is currently the PI of the UPR Clinical Trials Unit (UPR-CTU) sponsored by NIAID, and the UPR Mentoring Institute for HIV and Mental Health (sponsored by NIMH). She has been a consultant for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Agency for Health Research Quality (AHRQ), and is a former member of the Office of Women’s Health Advisory Committee and the CDC/HRSA AIDS and STD Advisory Committee (CHAC).
At the completion of this educational session, learners will:
- Appreciate the epidemiologic pattern of reduction and virtual elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Puerto Rico, and the use of antiretroviral therapy that guided such management.
- Understand the problems associated with Zika infection in pregnancy.
- Know the risk factors for Zika infection.
- Be aware of the different vector control strategies for the Aedes mosquito and Zika epidemics.
This PRN CME activity is funded in part by unrestricted educational grants from:
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Merck & Co, and ViiV Healthcare.
