ZIKA-VT aims to conduct prospective cohort studies in South and Central America and the Caribbean in order to assess:
WP1 is led by the University of the West Indies and co-led by University College, London.
The figure below shows the flow of subjects involved in these studies. Pregnant women will be recruited from sites in Jamaica, Haiti, Brazil and Costa Rica.
Specific tasks in this WP include; study staff training, enrolment into studies, maternal clinical follow-up, prospective vertical transmission study, laboratory testing and biobanking and statistical analysis.