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One major threat to those goals is late presentation, which is defined as an individual presenting a TCD4+ count lower than 350 cells\/mm3 or an AIDS-defining event. The present study aims to identify determinants of late presentation in Europe based on the EuResist database with HIV-1 infected patients followed-up between 1981 and 2019. Our study includes clinical and socio-demographic information from 89851 HIV-1 infected patients. Statistical analysis was performed using RStudio and SPSS and a Bayesian network was constructed with the WEKA software to analyze the association between all variables. Among 89,851 HIV-1 infected patients included in the analysis, the median age was 33 (IQR: 27.0\u201341.0) years and 74.4% were males. Of those, 28,889 patients (50.4%) were late presenters. Older patients (&gt;56), heterosexuals, patients originated from Africa and patients presenting with log VL &gt;4.1 had a higher probability of being late presenters (p &lt; 0.001). 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