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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 28 May 2025
1. Various of Ariel Wagener walking to the Clinicas Hospital
2. Wagener walking down a Clinicas Hospital corridor
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. 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."
7. Wagener speaks on the cell phone while looking out over Buenos Aires skyline
8. Wagener’s leukemia medicine he obtained thanks to a donor
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 16 April 2025
9. 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. In addition to the many people who have died, there are more than 1,500 cases waiting to be processed so that those people can receive their medication."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 29 April 2025
10. People walking through a corridor at Garrahan Hospital
11. 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
12. Medical staff organizing supplies in the Rodolfo Rossi Hospital pharmacy
13. Medication packages
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cecilia Jaschek, director of the Rodolfo Rossi Hospital:
"The National Cancer Institute stopped purchasing the medications. They’re simply not delivering the medications anymore. And the (Buenos Aires) province had to cover that expense and expand the formulary (had to increase its list of medications) to ensure the continuity of treatments for cancer patients."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 16 April 2025
15. Eduardo Castaño looks at photos of his late wife Marité during an interview
16. Castaño looks at photos of his late wife Marité and says UPSOUND (Spanish) "And this is the last we took"
17. 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."
18. Castaño crying
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 28 May 2025
19. 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.
" I was hoping for was that the government could lend a hand, but the government has completely abandoned us," he said.
With hiring frozen, doctors said they’re handling double the patient load.
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