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Her family unit consists of the father of her children Baudillo Soto de León
(deceased), her daughters Karla de Jesús Coronado Mérida and Benita del Rosario Soto
Mérida and her son Erick Alexander Maldonado Mérida, her father Sixto Mérida Mendoza
(deceased), her mother Herminia Rodríguez Coculista, her sister Mercedes Patricia Mérida
Rodríguez, and her current partner Alejo Ranferí Maldonado Oxlaj331.
B.21. Darinel López Montes de Oca
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Mr. López Montes de Oca was born on July 14, 1964, in the municipality of Ocos,
department of San Marcos, Guatemala. He lives in the village of Dolores Ocos San Marcos,
Guatemala. He completed fifth year of secondary education. Before his diagnosis, he sold
plantains, and now he works selling shoes, clothes, perfumery products, snacks and street
food. He was diagnosed in 2002 by MSF’s Proyecto Vida and began antiretroviral treatment
in 2004. Later, he was transferred to the Coatepeque National Hospital and received
treatment from MSF’s Proyecto Vida. He indicated that there were insufficient medicines in
the Coatepeque Hospital and CD4 counts, viral load and genotype tests were performed
irregularly; as a result, he contracted opportunistic diseases. He has suffered from skin
allergies, chronic malnutrition, anemia due to the antiretroviral drugs, and cryptococcal
meningitis. He has received psychological care. He only received nutritional support in MSF.
He has not been provided with social support or family, community and home-based care.
He has been given condoms. Mr. Montes de Oca asserted that he has felt discriminated
against by his family, his friends and society, and that he has to sell food in other villages,
because if people know that he is a person living with HIV, they do not buy from him. 332
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His family unit consists of his cousin Ana Castillo López and his niece Aracely Méndez
Castillo333.
B.22. Israel Perez Charal
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Mr. Pérez Charal was born in the municipality of San Juan Alotenango, department of
Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, on January 23, 1953. He lives in Antigua Guatemala, department
of Sacatepéquez, Guatemala. He went to night school. He is a truck driver. He was
diagnosed in 2002 at the San Juan de Dios Hospital, because he was going to donate blood
and was told that he was a carrier of HIV and referred to MSF. In 2003, he began
antiretroviral treatment. In 2004 and 2005 he attended the Luis Ángel García Family Clinic
of the Asociación de Salud Integral (hereinafter “the Luis Ángel García Clinic”) where he
received testing and medicines. Then, for work-related reasons, he asked to be transferred
to the IGSS from 2006 to 2010. He suffered from herpes, but did not receive treatment.
From 2010 to 2016 he returned to the Luis Ángel García Clinic, where he is currently being
treated. He has undergone CD4 counts and viral load tests irregularly. He has suffered from
obesity and herpes. He stated that there were insufficient drugs for everyone. He also
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 12769).
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Birth certificate of Darinel López Montes de Oca (evidence file, folio 12822); Affidavit prepared by Darinel
López Montes de Oca on January 11, 2017 (evidence file, folios 11606, 11607, 11608 and 11609); the petitioners’
brief of August 7, 2009 (evidence file, folio 823); table with information collected by Dr. Cristina Calderón, during
meetings and review of the petitioners’ medical records in November 2010, which was attached to the brief with
motions, pleadings and evidence (evidence file, folio 12791), and expert opinion provided by Ricardo Boza Cordero
at the hearing held before the Court and written report on this opinion (merits file, folio 1471).
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The petitioners’ brief of September 30, 2011 (evidence file, folio 1361), and list annexed to the IACHR
Merits Report of April 13, 2016 (evidence file, folio 12767).
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