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Despite significant progress towards ending HIV epidemics notable challenges remain both from prevention and clinical perspective. In many countries and regions combination prevention including HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis is still suboptimal and of limited availability due to an array of barriers including financial, system capacity and stigma which call for urgent action. Sadly, despite years of efforts late HIV diagnoses remain common affecting all genders and ages therefore expanding access to testing with implementation of novel testing modalities is also key. HIV epidemics is also often silently affecting vulnerable populations including women, migrants and transgender people calling for focused prevention and treatment action. Furthermore, Eastern European regions remain to be disproportionately affected by the growing epidemics which challenges the progress towards meeting the incidence reduction target.  Continuous disastrous war in Ukraine further exacerbates the issue not only with massive casualties and limiting access to care but forcing displacement and migration of…