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This was a health facility-based cross-sectional study of 124 PLWHA accessing antiretroviral therapy at a hospital in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Data were collected using a pretested questionnaire adopting the WHO HIV-QOL BREF. The data were analysed descriptively and inferentially using STATA 15.0. Statistical significance was set at a p value&lt;0.05 at a 95% confidence interval. Forty-two percent of the respondents disclosed their HIV status. Social support was available for 76.9% of those who had disclosed their status. The mean QoL was highest within the physical domain (14.3\u00b12.9), while the psychological domain indicated the lowest quality of life (11.03\u00b13.26). Approximately 47.6% attained the mean overall QoL score (73.18). Being a male predicted lower QoL in all domains than being a female. Being a Muslim, having tertiary education, and being an urban resident significantly predicted better QoL than being a Christian, having no formal education, and being a rural resident, respectively. Respondents\u2019 age negatively predicted overall quality of life. Although disclosing one\u2019s HIV\/AIDS status positively predicted QoL, the difference was not statistically significant. A significantly poor quality of life among patients can drag efforts by Ghana towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of reducing the HIV\/AIDS pandemic and its associated mortality. 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