ANNEX 3. INDIVIDUALIZATION OF THE VICTIMS AND THEIR NEXT OF KIN
A. Persons Deceased
A.1. Facundo Gómez Reyes
1.
Mr. Gómez Reyes was born on November 27, 1975. He was diagnosed with HIV in
April 2002, through the “Proyecto Vida” of the non-governmental organization “Médecins
Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (hereinafter “MSF”). He was a carpenter and did
not know how to read or write. He lived in the municipality of Retalhuleu, department of
Retalhuleu, Guatemala. Mr. Gómez Reyes did not have access to timely antiretroviral
treatment or to CD4 counts and viral load, genotype and phenotype tests. As a result of his
condition, he suffered multidrug-resistant lymph node tuberculosis. His last medical
appointment was on February 18, 2005. He died on February 27, 2003, due to
tuberculosis.260
2.
His family unit consisted of his companion, María Elena Morales Villafuerte
(diagnosed with HIV), and his sons Brandon David Adalberto and Gerson Facundo, both
Gómez Morales.261
A.2. Reina López Mujica
3.
Ms. López Mujica was born in 1962. She lived in the municipality of Coatepeque,
department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She had received no schooling; she was a
housewife and depended financially on her husband’s work as a laborer. She was diagnosed
on April 15, 2002, in the Coatepeque National Hospital. She began to receive antiretroviral
treatment in June 2003 through MSF’s Proyecto Vida. She did not undergo genotype and
phenotype testing, and her health was not monitored. She suffered from tuberculosis and
acute anemia. She died on November 6, 2003, owing to tuberculosis and acute anemia.262
A.3. Ismar Ramírez Chajón
4.
Mr. Ramírez Chajón lived in the municipality of Villanueva, department of Guatemala,
Guatemala. He was diagnosed at the age of 22 in a private clinic in which he was interned
because of bad health. Following his diagnosis, he received treatment in the Guatemalan
Social Security Institute (hereinafter “IGSS”). He was transferred to the Roosevelt Hospital,
Obligatory notification of a case of AIDS No. 005454 of February 27, 2003, signed by the Ministry of Public
Health and Social Assistance, corresponding to Facundo Gómez Reyes (evidence file, folio 112089); application for
amparo dated July 26, 2002 (evidence file, folio 13); the Guatemalan State’s report to the IACHR of August 26,
2010 (evidence file, folio 1461); Affidavit prepared by María Elena Morales Villafuerte on January 17, 2017
(evidence file, folios 11715 and 11716); initial petition of August 14, 2003 (evidence file, folio 466); the
petitioners’ brief of August 7, 2009 (evidence file, folio 818), and the petitioners’ brief of December 10, 2010,
which included data collected by Dr. Cristina Calderón (co-petitioner) from the medical records of the presumed
victims and from interviews (evidence file, folio 1399).
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Affidavit prepared by María Elena Morales Villafuerte on February 10, 2017 (evidence file, folios 11719 and
11721), and the petitioners’ brief of September 30, 2011, containing a list of the next of kin or closest circle of
each of them (evidence file, folio 1360).
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Sheet with confidential data on HIV patients dated April 22, 2002, signed by Proyecto Vida corresponding
to Reina López Mujica (evidence file, folio 11188); the petitioners’ brief of April 2, 2004, advising of the death of
Reina López Mujica, and the petitioners’ brief of December 10, 2010, which included data collected by Dr. Cristina
Calderón (co-petitioner) from the medical records of the presumed victims and from interviews (evidence file, folio
1399).
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