**1. Introduction**

Palliative care refers to the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment to improve their quality of life. The main goal of palliative care is achieving the best possible quality of life. In the process of palliative care, the core activities are control of symptoms and psychological, social, and spiritual problems [1]. This implies palliative care is a comprehensive care to solve physical, emotional, and spiritual impact of HIV/AIDS has on a person, no matter the stage of the illness [2, 3].

HIV is becoming a chronic condition that needs prolonged medical individualcentred care [4]. People living with HIV have a high burden of physical, psychological, and social difficulties which require palliative care that is holistic care and is recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an essential element of HIV care, from diagnosis to end of life. According to Huang [4], in the management programme of HIV, palliative care should be integral to alleviate the distress and helps the people living with HIV to lead better quality of life. This means, in the continuum of HIV/AIDS, people living with this condition suffer from symptoms that are caused by opportunistic infections, the virus itself, or the side effects of antiretroviral drugs. Thus, to improve the individuals' quality of life requires to focus on palliative care, and enforcement of its implementation is critically important [3].

More importantly, people living with HIV need palliative care for many reasons such as pain, cough, nausea, weakness, fever, diarrhoea, breathing problems, other comorbidities, aging, and complex decision-making. Palliative care for these populations is a means of managing these challenging experiences and minimising burden on hospital resources [5]. Therefore, in the era of HIV, compressive package of care is critically important and should be in place in all HIV treatment guidelines.
