(30 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina - 28 May 2025
1. Ariel Wagener walking in the Clinicas Hospital
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2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ariel Wagener, a 47-year-old pizza chef with leukemia:
"I didn't choose to have cancer. I didn't choose to have this disease. And it actually costs a lot of money, and even though I have a job, I can't sustain it. I can't sustain it. I can't afford it because each bottle of medication, which lasts a month, costs 21,000,000 pesos (about $21,000), and what I was hoping for was that the government could lend a hand, but the government has completely abandoned us."
3. Wagener waiting to do a blood test to measure his white cells
4. Various of Wagener doing a blood test
5. Test tubes
6. Wagener speaks on a mobile phone while looking out over Buenos Aires skyline
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina - 16 April 2025
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7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) : Macarena Sabin Paz, health team coordinator at Argentina’s Center for Legal and Social Studies:
"We have records of more than 60 people who have died because they were unable to access their cancer medications, treatments that were ongoing. In some cases, cancer medications are unaffordable, let's say, really very expensive."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina - 29 April 2025
8. People walking through a corridor at Garrahan Hospital
9. Lucia Ruiz Diaz sits next to her 5-year-old son Tomas, who has cancer, at a waiting room in the Garrahan Hospital
ASSOCIATED PRESS
La Plata, Argentina - 8 May 2025
10. Medical staff organizing supplies in the Rodolfo Rossi Hospital pharmacy
11. Medication packages
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina - 16 April 2025
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12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eduardo Castaño, husband of Marité, who passed away without cancer treatment:
"You have to put yourself in the place of the sick person, whether it's Marité or anyone else, knowing that what saves your life will no longer be available. That's what's perverse."
13. Various of Eduardo Castaño looks at photos of his late wife Marité during an interview
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina - 28 May 2025
14. Mural on Clinicas Hospital building
STORYLINE:
To outsiders, the Facebook group chat reads like a snarl of nonsensical emojis and letters. To uninsured Argentine cancer patients, it’s a lifeline.
The surreptitious network connects advocates who have spare drugs to Argentines with cancer who lost access to their treatment in March 2024 when President Javier Milei suspended a federal agency, known as DADSE, that paid for their expensive medications.
Whenever Facebook cracks the coded pleas and removes the group for violating its rules on drug sales, another appears, swelling with Argentines who say they’ve grown sicker since the radical libertarian president took a chainsaw to health care.
"I can't afford it because each bottle of medication, whic... [truncated]
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