65. Her family unit consists of her husband Carlos Humberto Vásquez Pérez, her daughters Delia Marlenee and Adela Nohemí (deceased), both Pérez Maldonado, and her sister Telma Maldonado Andrade.327 B.19. Dora Marina Martínez Sofoifa 66. Mrs. Martínez Sofoifa was born on September 10, 1971, in the municipality of Ocos, department of San Marcos, Guatemala. She lives in Caserío Silencio, municipality of Coatepeque, department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She does domestic work. She was diagnosed in 1998 in the Coatepeque National Hospital, where she went because she was suffering from a fever and malnutrition. She did not receive medical treatment for HIV for the first few years after her diagnosis because, in the hospital, they told her that they did not have the drugs required to treat her. In 2004, she was treated by MSF, where she underwent CD4 counts and was prescribed antiretroviral treatment. In 2010, she was again transferred to the Coatepeque National Hospital. CD4 counts and viral load tests are irregular. In 2014, there were no antiretroviral drugs for several months. She has suffered from high cholesterol and lipodystrophy.328 67. Mrs. Martínez Sofoifa indicated that the way she was treated by the hospital personnel changed after her diagnosis became known. She also indicated that the clinic where she is treated is four kilometers from her home and that, due to the distance, transport costs, and the dangers of the area where she lives, she has to travel to her appointments in the early morning hours and wait outside the emergency ward. 329 B.20. Pascuala de Jesús Mérida Rodríguez 68. Mrs. Mérida Rodríguez was born on April 25, 1975, in the municipality of San Sebastián, department of Retalhuleu, Guatemala. She lives in the village of Granados, Sector 2, Nuevo San Carlos, Retalhuleu, Guatemala. She completed third year of primary education. When she was diagnosed with HIV she was not employed. She was diagnosed in 2001 by MSF’s Proyecto Vida, when she was five months pregnant. MSF provided her with trimethoprim and she received antiretroviral treatment for four months until her son was born. She has undergone CD4 counts and viral load tests irregularly. She was transferred to the Coatepeque National Hospital, and subsequently to the Retalhuleu Hospital. She has not undergone genotype testing. She has suffered from diarrhea and cephalea. She indicated that antiretroviral drugs were unavailable at times and sometimes she was given children’s medicines. When MSF was treating her, she received nutritional support and she attends a self-help group, where she is given condoms. She does not receive social or psychological support or family, community and home-based care. She indicated that her mother-in-law “turned her out” of the house in which she lived with her children and her husband, before he died. Her daughters had problems in primary school, because they were told that “they also had AIDS,” until she went to speak to the head of the school. 330 The petitioners’ brief of September 30, 2011 (evidence file, folio 1363), and list annexed to the IACHR Merits Report of April 13, 2016 (evidence file, folio 12768). 327 Birth certificate of Dora Marina Martínez Sofoifa (evidence file, folio 12874), and Affidavit prepared by Dora Marina Martínez Sofoifa on December 16, 2016 (evidence file, folios 11522 and 11523). 328 329 11524). Affidavit prepared by Dora Marina Martínez Sofoifa on December 16, 2016 (evidence file, folios 11523 and Birth certificate of Pascuala de Jesús Mérida Rodríguez (evidence file, folio 12902); Affidavit prepared by Pascuala De Jesús Mérida Rodríguez de Maldonado on March 25, 2017 (evidence file, folios 11760, 11761, 11762, 11763, 11764 and 11769), and the petitioners’ brief of August 7, 2009 (evidence file, folio 828). 330 105