76. His family unit consists of his wife Carmen Mérida Coronado, his daughters Flor de María, Clara Verónica, Sonia Maribel and Maria Magdalena, and his sons Aníbal Leonel, Braulio Adán, Andy Alberto and Walter Audencio, all Rodas Mérida, his granddaughters Cecia Verónica Barrios Rodas, Susely Berenice Rodas Mérida, Tania Briseidy Velasco Rodas, and his grandsons Abni Eliezer Barrios Rodas, Christian Obdulio Barrios Rodas, Brandon Isaac Rodas Mus, Nehemias Audecio Rodas Chilel and Esdras Avisai Rodas Chilel.338 B.25. Zoila Marina Pérez Ruíz 77. Mrs. Pérez Ruíz was born in the municipality of El Quetzal, department of San Marcos, Guatemala, on October 20, 1960. She lives in the village of Cintaná, municipality of El Quetzal, department of San Marcos, Guatemala. She has no schooling, is illiterate, and is a housewife. Before being diagnosed, she worked selling fruit. She was diagnosed with HIV in 2002, but did not receive medical treatment until 2004; however, without access to CD4 counts and viral load testing. Initially, she received medical care from MSF, and later was transferred to the Coatepeque National Hospital. By 2009, she had undergone CD4 counts on four occasions and viral load testing twice. By 2015, she had had five more viral load tests and five more CD4 counts. She has suffered from the following opportunistic diseases: cervical lymphadenopathy, vaginal candidiasis, sarcoidosis, disseminated tuberculosis, tonsillitis, backpain, herpes, pneumonia, peripheral neuropathy, growth in the neck, and mycosis in both feet. She has received talks on HIV/AIDS by MSF’s Proyecto Vida that have helped her move forward.339 78. Mrs. Pérez Ruíz indicated that she had been discriminated against in the Roosevelt Hospital because the nurses avoiding coming near her when they left her food; they said that “it was a contagious disease and they did not want to be contaminated.” Her financial situation is precarious and, consequently, two of her sons abandoned their studies to obtain work in order to help her obtain her treatments and to pay for the schooling of their younger siblings. She stated that the journey from her home to the hospital cost approximately 500 quetzals for each trip, because she had to take one of her sons with her; this was why she had not followed up on the plastic surgery she required to correct the lipodystrophy in her neck.340 79. Her family unit consists of her husband, Santiago Francisco Valdéz Aguilar her sons and daughters, Jhony Francisco, Boni Kennedy, Nancy Beatríz, Glendi Betsaida, Mildred Odalis, Zoila Argentina and Nelson Gudiel, all Valdéz Pérez, her mother Rosario Ruíz, and her brother Edgar Gilberto Pérez Ruíz.341 The petitioners’ brief of September 30, 2011 (evidence file, folio 1362), and list annexed to the IACHR Merits Report of April 13, 2016 (evidence file, folios 12767 and 12768). 338 Birth certificate of Zoila Marina Pérez Ruíz (evidence file, folio 12862); Statement made by Zoila Marina Pérez Ruíz during the public hearing held before the Court; Affidavit prepared by Zoila Marina Pérez Ruíz on February 9, 2017 (evidence file, folios 11548 and 11554); Table of information collected by Dr. Cristina Calderón, as an annex to the petitioners’ brief of June 27, 2008 (evidence file, folio 12774); the State’s report of March 23, 2009 (evidence file, folio 917); table with information collected by Dr. Cristina Calderón, through interviews in November 2010 (evidence file, folios 12787 and 12801); expert opinion provided by Ricardo Boza Cordero at the public hearing held before the Court and written report on this opinion (merits file, folio 1490), and petitioners’ brief with observations dated August 7, 2009 (evidence file, folio 829). 339 Statement made by Zoila Marina Pérez Ruíz during the public hearing held before the Court, and Affidavit prepared by Zoila Marina Pérez Ruíz on February 9, 2017 (evidence file, folios 11549, 11550 and 11552). 340 341 List annexed to the IACHR Merits Report of April 13, 2016 (evidence file, folio 12769). 108