Dilia Oviedo Güillín, a woman of unwavering spirit and strength, always dreamed of reuniting her deceased husband and children in a place where they could rest in peace together. From an early age, life presented her with numerous challenges, including a disease that would change her life completely, “Huntington’s Disease”,…

Factor-H offers a free-of-charge legal assistance service in Colombia, with the sole objective of facilitating access to the services, medicines and supplies that the Colombian State ensures to all patients affected by Huntington’s disease. Factor-H aims to assist all HD families with navigating the complex landscape of accessing medical benefits…

By Arnel Arroyo Díaz We celebrate another milestone in our mission to support the most vulnerable HD communities! We are proud to share that we have once again delivered school kits to families afflicted with Huntington’s disease in more than 10 municipalities on the Colombian Caribbean coast. This effort has…

The Health Day, conducted on September 26, 2023, was aimed at children and adolescents belonging to the EH community in Algarrobo in the department of Magdalena, as a collaboration between Factor-H, the University Metropolitana (Barranquilla), University Area Andina (Valledupar), Colegio el Carmen and GREMCAN S.A. (a Colombian occupational heath NGO).…

Dilia was born in San Martin of Loba, a municipality located north of the department of Cesar, Colombia. Her parents were Florentino and Ernestina. She met her husband, Valentin, who was also her cousin, at a dance when she was young, and they felt immediately in love. They had twelve…

On April 10, 2023, the President of Factor-H, Ignacio Muñoz-Sanjuan, and members of the management team in Colombia, met with Carlos Manuel Higgins Villanueva, mayor of Juan de Acosta, to discuss the management of a municipal space by Factor-H, which aims to serve as an operations center for the services…

(Conference below) From October 19 to 21, Factor-h organized in Barranquilla, Colombia, the 2022 Huntington Latin American Conference with the presence of 35 speakers, among them scientists, researchers, experts in different health fields, HD associations, patients, and families. In his conference on October 20h, Vladimir Marcano, a Venezuelan documentary photographer…

All of us at Factor-h are honoring the memory of Maria Antonia Infante Martínez, from Soledad, Barranquilla, who left us yesterday, January 18. Our thoughts are, more now than ever, with her family. Rest in peace.

Just a few hours of the pass away of Maria Antonia Infante Martínez from Puerto, Barranquilla, we got the news that a second member of our community, Alcides José Ariza Barraza, de Puerto Colombia, also in Barranquilla, has left us. We would like to let his family to know that…

I want to start by writing a little about myself and about whom, through these lines, speaks to you. My name is Brayan Hernández, a lawyer who is passionate about social work and the defense of human rights. A native of Tunja, Boyacá, in Colombia. Because of some labor decisions,…