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).
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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).
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