**2. Settings of palliative care**

Palliative care includes a wide range of interventions to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV and their families. The delivery sites for providing palliative care include home, community, and facility based [6, 7]. However, it can be given based on patient preference.

*Home-based palliative care***:** It is an affordable approach in resource-poor setting and plays a significant role for a large proportion of people living with HIV and their families. Most people living with HIV prefer home-based palliative care. It requires training and education for healthcare providers like nurses, medical doctors, and community care providers. The training should focus on:


*Community-based palliative care***:** These include clinics, day care centres, school-based clinics, health centres, and work place clinics.

*Facility-based palliative care***:** These sites include hospitals which provide both outpatient and inpatient clinical care by trained healthcare providers in the form of follow-up and admission. The specific palliative care activities carried out in hospital (facility based) based are assessment, symptom management, and consultation; discharge planning for all palliative care patients; and education of healthcare providers throughout the hospital [6, 7].
