based care. He has an appointment with the psychologist once a year and has been given
condoms.297
36.
His family unit consists of his partner Martina Candelaria Alvarez Estrada, his
daughters Candelaria, Argentina, Honoria, Cecilia, Daria and his son Juan Carlos, all
Ordoñez Alvarez, his grandsons Luis Emiliano Ordoñez Álvarez, Martín Gildardo Ordoñez
Álvarez, Ivan Juárez Ordoñez and his granddaughters Lauris Ernestina and Yeslin Janeth,
both Juárez Ordoñez298.
B.4. Martina Candelaria Alvarez Estrada
37.
Mrs. Alvarez Estrada was born on August 20, 1947, in the municipality of
Coatepeque, department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She lives in the San Vicente
Champerico Multicultural Agrarian Community, Retalhuleu. She had no schooling and is
illiterate. She was diagnosed with HIV in 2001 by MSF’s Proyecto Vida. She began her
antiretroviral treatment in this organization. Subsequently, she was transferred to Clinic No.
12 of the Coatepeque National Hospital. She has undergone CD4 counts (4) and viral load
tests (2). She has suffered from neuropathy, arthralgia, diarrhea, a very hot tongue, and
tiredness. She finds it difficult to go to the hospital because, like her husband, Felipe
Tebalan Ordoñez, it is far from her home and she does not have the financial resources
required.299
38.
Her family unit consists of her husband Felipe Tebalan Ordoñez, their daughters
Candelaria, Argentina, Honoria, Cecilia, Daria and their son Juan Carlos, all Ordoñez
Alvarez, their grandsons Luis Emiliano Ordoñez Álvarez, Martín Gildardo Ordoñez Alvarez,
Iván Juárez Ordoñez and their granddaughters Lauris Ernestina and Yeslin Janeth, both
Juárez Ordoñez.300
B.5 Luis Rubén Isabel Alvarez Flores
39.
Mr. Alvarez Flores was born on November 19, 1962, in the municipality of Mixco,
department of Guatemala, Guatemala. He lives in Mixco, Guatemala. He is a marketing and
publicity expert and middle school teacher, specialized in pedagogy. He studied to be a
teacher and worked in a college in 2001. He was diagnosed with HIV on October 18, 2002,
in the Pedro de Bethancourt National Hospital as the result of an opportunistic infection
known as fungal pneumonia. He was then transferred to the San José Hospice.
Subsequently, he was transferred to MSF where he began antiretroviral treatment in
February 2003. After this, he was treated by the Marco Antonio Foundation, where he
received psychological and nutritional care, and was assisted by a social worker. Since
2008, he has been receiving medical care in a public hospital in Antigua. This medical care
was interrupted from 2011 to 2013 because he was living in Honduras, and he
reincorporated the treatment on his return. Currently, he is treated at the hospital in
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Birth certificate of Felipe Tebalan Ordoñez (evidence file, folio 12828); statements made by Felipe Tebalan
Ordoñez on January 11 and February 9, 2017 (evidence file, folios 11618, 11619, 11620, 11621 and 11624), and
the petitioners’ brief of August 7, 2009 (evidence file, folio 823).
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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Birth certificate of Martina Candelaria Álvarez Estrada (evidence file, folio 12896); statements made by
Martina Candelaria Álvarez Estrada on March 25, 2017 (evidence file, folio 11734), and the petitioners’ brief of
August 7, 2009 (evidence file, folio 824).
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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).he was
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