At CROI 2025, Kellie Hawkins, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado and attending infectious disease physician at Denver Health, discussed findings from the RECOVER Program, which explores the impact of HIV on Long COVID. The study examined the incidence of Long COVID in people living with HIV (PWH) and aimed to understand the association between HIV infection and Long COVID symptoms.
Hawkins explained diagnosing Long COVID, “What we really need is a biomarker or a lab that could help us in the diagnosis. And recent studies have looked for that and have not found it. So right now, what we have are clinical algorithms, essentially,” she said. These clinical frameworks use symptoms to define Long COVID but may not be fully effective in populations with chronic conditions like HIV.
The study…