| This paper aims at reviewing the studies conducted on quality of life of the victims of HIV/AIDS. It also emphasizes the major factors that affect the victim's quality of life. The assessment of quality of life makes us understand how people's lives are affected by HIV infection. Improving the quality of life (QOL) is a central issue to the care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS (WHO and UNAIDS. 2000). A good number of research studies, literatures and reports were explored and reviewed to ascertain and conceptualize the quality of life of the HIV/AIDS patients. It was inferred that the stigma, unemployment, depression, anxiety, stress, substance abuse, cultural beliefs, feeling of shyness and shame, lack of support from family, friends and community, poor social exclusion, parental neglect, death of a spouse, elevated levels of loneliness, daytime sleepiness, social bicot, greater fear of the future, physical abuse, physical pain, fatigue, viral load, Taking ART, CD4 count etc. leads to poor quality of life among the HIV/AIDS infected persons. Thus, the pathological interventions and psychosocial interventions are also required along with the medical in treating people living with HIV/AIDS. |