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HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, it effects the individual not only physically, but socially, mentally, financially. The QOL is an important factor in every diseased individual, when it comes to HIV/AIDS it is related with their health status, functional status, psychological well-being, enjoyment with life, fulfilment of requirements. The main aim and objectives of this study is to assess the health-related quality of life among people living with HIV/AIDS at a tertiary care hospital, GGH, Ongole and to determine the association of socio demographic and disease related variables; to assess QOL outcomes at facet level and the factors affecting it; to assess viral load before and after the study; to estimate medication adherence based on pill count among people living with HIV/AIDS. Methods: A prospective observational study was carried out among 600 people living with HIV/AIDS, attending ART centre in a tertiary care hospital, GGH, Ongole, from October 2021 to March 2022.QOL was assessed using WHO-QOL-120 Questionnaire and statistical analysis was done using IBM SPSS Version 23.0 software. Results and Conclusion: By using ANOVA ONE WAY the mean score and p-value were calculated for each facet, the current study shows that the majority of the patients had good quality of life. Gender is cross-tabulated with all demographic factors that were significant(P<0.05) according to chi-square analysis, except the mode of HIV transmission which is not significant(P>0.05). We concluded that the medication adherence of participants was good by comparing the viral load values before and after the study.