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Sonia AVALOS, Daniel MEROLLA

Amid Crisis, Sick Argentines Face a Stark Choice Between Food and Medicine as Prices Soar

PPablo Riveros, 20, suffers from paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, a rare, life-threatening disease for which there is no cure

In pharmacies in crisis-riddled Argentina, people look at the prices on medicine containers, then put them down again.

Even prescription antibiotics and chronic treatments are being ditched in a country where annual inflation exceeding 250 percent means that healthcare has become a luxury for many.

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