32. Mrs. Aguilar was born in the municipality of El Asintal, department of Retalhuleu, Guatemala on July 28, 1955. She lives in the village of Xab del Asintal, Retalhuleu, Guatemala. She speaks Mam and Spanish, has never received schooling, and is illiterate. She is a trader. She was diagnosed with HIV in 2002, in a private laboratory. She began antiretroviral treatment with MSF and then with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS. She was transferred to Clinic No. 12 of the Coatepeque National Hospital in 2006, and began antiretroviral treatment there on April 26, 2007, through MSF. After MSF left, she continued receiving medical treatment in that hospital. She has undergone CD4 counts and viral load testing from time to time and has not been able to access al the drugs that she has been prescribed owing to their high cost. Also, she has not had genotype and phenotype tests. She has suffered from acute tonsillitis, parasites, pharyngitis, sarcoidosis, neuropathy, moderate cervicitis, urinary infection, sinusitis, diarrhea, calcaneal spur, peptic disease, postherpetic neuropathy and obesity. She does not receive either psychological or nutritional support, merely medication. Moreover, she does not receive family or community assistance. It takes her an hour to travel from her home to the clinic and the fare costs between 8 and 15 quetzals each way.293 33. As in the case of her husband, Sebastián Emilio Dueñas, Mrs. Aguilar indicated that she has been pointed out owing to her condition of being a person living with HIV, in particular by her neighbors who have identified both her and her husband as “sidosos” which, she indicated, hurt her, as did the comments made against her in the Coatepeque National Hospital.294 34. Her family unit consists of her husband Sebastián Emilio Dueñas, their daughters Lucrecia Izabel and Eva, both Dueñas Aguilar, their son Fredy Dueñas Aguilar or José Alfredo Ramón Aguilar, and her mother María Dueñas Aguilar295. B.3. Felipe Tebalan Ordoñez 35. Mr. Tebalan Ordoñez was born in the municipality of Coatepeque, department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala on August 23, 1942. He lives in the San Vicente Champerico Multicultural Agrarian Community, Retalhuleu, Guatemala. His schooling consisted of first year of primary education and he was enlisted in the army for three years. He speaks k’iche and Spanish. Before becoming infected, he planted and harvested corn; however, he had to sell his plot because, due to his illness, he was unable to continue. Once he started treatment, he sold chickens and, subsequently, on the advice of his children he stopped working.296 He was diagnosed with HIV in 2002, under MSF’s Proyecto Vida. He began his antiretroviral treatment with MSF in June 2003, and in around 2004, he was transferred to Clinic No. 12 of the Coatepeque National Hospital, where he underwent liver function tests and, irregularly, CD4 counts (4) and viral load testing (1). He has not undergone genotype and phenotype tests, but he has been given the drugs that are prescribed. He has suffered from liver problems, slight deafness, level II malnutrition, acute diarrhea, allergies and mouth sores. He receives no nutritional or social support, or family, community and homeStatements by Julia Aguilar on December 20, 2016, and February 11, 2017 (evidence file, folios 11648, 11649 and 11651), and the petitioners’ brief of August 7, 2009 (evidence file, folios 824 and 825). 293 Birth certificate of Julia Aguilar (evidence file, folio 12868), and statements made by Julia Aguilar on December 20, 2016 and February 11, 2017 (evidence file, folios 11648 – 11650). 294 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). 295 Statements made by Felipe Tebalan Ordoñez on January 11 and February 9, 2017 (evidence file, folios 11618, 11621, 11622, 11623 and 11624). 296 97

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