From 12-15th October 2011, the 13th European AIDS Conference/EACS took place in Belgrade, Serbia (www.eacs-conference2011.com) at the Sava Center. The conference was organized under the auspices of the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS), a nonprofit group of European physicians, clinicians, and researchers dealing with the clinical management of HIV (www.europeanaidsclinicalsociety.org). This year’s biennial EACS conference was the largest European HIV/AIDS meeting in 2011, with 2633 participants in total, coming from 79 different countries from the world. The majority of participants were predominantly from United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, as well as from Russian Federation, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland and United States. More than ever, there were also participants from the South-Eastern/Eastern Europe such as Romania, Greece, Turkey, Hungary together with all ex-Yugoslavia countries. A well balanced mix of plenary lectures and abstract driven sessions presented the latest research in the field of HIV medicine. Briefly, topics of the plenary lectures included: ‘HIV and human rights’, ‘Estimating the HIV epidemic in Europe’, ‘Barriers and needs for optimal HIV care’, ‘PrEP-ready for implementation?’, ‘Advances in managing TB in those with HIV’, ‘Managing HIV when resources are limited’ jointly organized with the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), ‘Towards an HIV cure’, jointly organized with the International AIDS Society (IAS), ‘Starting antiretroviral therapy in 2011’, ‘Looking beyond plasma undetectability‘, ‘Neurocognitive disorders in HIV‘ jointly organized with the Forum for collaborative HIV research, ‘The best of basic science for HIV clinicians in the last year’, ‘Treatment of HIV/HCV co-infection – A new frontier’. For this year’s EACS conference there were 583 submitted abstracts. Some 360 abstracts were accepted for the presentation and out of that number 64 abstracts were selected for the oral presentation and 8 for the best poster presentation. In general, the 13th European AIDS Conference was a right place for an active dialogue between researches, clinicians and various other relevant stakeholders together with over 70 journalists across the world as vital factor in creating awareness and education. With many unsolved questions, the HIV epidemic still remains one of the main public health challenges of our time, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Due to recent advances and developments in access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV-positive people now live longer and healthier lives. In order to reach this goal, all new results of the clinical and basic science research will be presented at the 14th European AIDS Conference which will take place in Brussels, Belgium between 16-19th October 2013.