welcome to the wonderful world of blood donations around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of generosity one of the noblest acts in modern society but the reality is different altogether. if there's the perfect money making industry our willingness to pay for available therapies basically especially for a loved ones knows no bounds at the heart of this business class mom a yellow liquid rich in proteins it's the main component of blood it's more expensive than oil and it's a little protest. began kitty does a process tell us

a new book anybody space called acceptable p. dumb a shall die inch systemic keep down man meant to be beautiful he should play he did you pull. off a motor car. of the meanness she killed me so. i don't want to do and i'm a positive. we decided to explore a little known area within the health industry the blood trail. our investigation took us to france germany and the us they don't like us to interview the head on oh yeah they don't want something a door right they need to stop public want to know. today carlos is donating blood despite his busy job he's a regular blood donor at the red cross center in los on carlos sees his act as a sign of committing. into the community. of. more than one hundred million

donations are collected each year worldwide in two thousand and fifteen. the swiss red cross registered three hundred eleven thousand donations the figure diminishes each year and they're constantly seeking new donors their message is clear giving blood saves lives. southwest of much of new. sickish it might add to. the. more similar to do dishes. that's going to want. to push towards come in can to build a pool on the neck at crucial not to get the team to swim in the flow.

but the blood is a quite peculiar juice said with glee but he's not the only want to be interested health is also an industry and blood donations are subject to the laws of the market. but for. a lot it's just. that when you don't before giving blood these swiss donors must complete a medical question here and give their informed consent in particular there is one line at the end of the form a sentence in small letters i am aware that some components of my donation may be used for the production of drugs only a few donors read this line though it's crucial in reality most of the donated blood is soldier private companies something the red cross doesn't advertise. sponsored thompson. look bandon per yard. does seem to fold luge bend in the us

highest in these the boot bend and since not in the loop in this plus an. investment. plethora. and given thoughts to them on that include pushed on tile in the system plus muscle. sent the swimming direct in the entropy taylor get off to be tail ticed foot putts he entered in the uncool salute to low stop and. he says well the woman is at style to use the title to us into fast off to put scent gate in the so going on to talk till needed induced to leave us in fear. look they're on to come and tell them the plasma fractionation industry these are the pharmaceutical companies that buy eighty thousand liters of plasma from the red cross each year the humanitarian institution makes nearly ten million swiss francs

from this sale by the donors aware of it. doesn't. remember doing yesterday between a song top boss. saying by no memo the boss of the shows i. don't wonder so i'm against it if it comes with the needle so if pierre priscus assaulted vernia. he said don't his appeal to the summit and watching. them when you don't do something to me muschamp innocent first discovery the majority of the donors blood is sold to pharmaceutical industries. the industry is so interested in carlos's blood for a specific reason it's liquid part called plasma contains sought after proteins. they are used to make very expensive and profitable drugs. the players behind this

industry. we decided to track the plasma trade. to see it. typically fifty seven percent of our blood is made of the plastic plastic. which pushes the whole flight to transports water and nutrients to all sounds and. it is composed of approximately ninety percent water and ten percent. plasma industry is healing and a handful of companies share the world market baxter in the usa bearing in australia and your foals in spring and the company farm in switzerland which we discover through these promotional films material is produced by the perfect bio reactor developed over millions of years of evolution the human body for these companies plasma is nothing but a raw material and very lucrative to europe and the professional term is

fractionation the name of the procedure that transforms donors plasma into drugs to do this with a callback to freeze and mix thousands of liters of human plasma these companies control a market which is worth seventeen billion dollars and growing steadily history so that the plasma gong margaery the president and co-founder of dr pharma is a very discrete person forbes estimates his fortune at six billion dollars this is one of his very rare public appearances how do you see the future developing these products lifesaving drugs and they will be required for some patient groups as a lifelong therapy and presumably they're covered by in most insurance they have to be as to very expensive but that is also the other part of the same from the same calling them many countries who simply cannot afford to provide this kind of. level

of treatment to the population yet at least it sounds easy when you say replies will be a bit well enough to just go through your population your country the ploughs well and you'll be in good shape when you make those products it's not the case. remains a family business dedicated to ways going to patients to go. in that life adventure. throughout the world the lives of millions of patients depend on these treatments tomorrow is one of them today she's receiving her treatment at a hospital in bear since childhood she suffers from an immune deficiency that causes repeated infections. yeah thanks to her plasma based treatment tamar's life has become easier so much so that it would be difficult for her to go without. and they

may say shut up it's very. well to escape was quick. to say. that today in fact in fact. he had her. tumor. you know that it was ok. as the saying three more. to get their footing not there when my head. clerk would have on the soap and make up but so you don't ever. play. it up they can turn. it on them to could all see flash to seek.

to clean that is something to see come. to see them. react to it all depended on. the men to come out of the know coming on the very most likely to manipulate their force met at that. pace of. that from call. this moment that you are special. place and. where is her life changing drug from where is the blood in the drug from from swiss donors. i want me. to race me. next they may. know what.

the plasmas origin isn't public information it's a trade secret we decide to visit swiss medic this is the swiss authority in charge of drug control including their origins these expert analyzed plasma samples each week as well as the blood derived products that are used in hospitals. in profit. is they not only can. i just lost my cool it's. been down to. a depressing up all day still he's known stephen oh he said he said. ali quote time that i will be down to taste. it but the state but the. world food. didn't do dns over there plus the could be so it was going to endorse all throw in the hot.

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through from cleveland. west twenty fifth street. to. cleveland united states we decided to travel there. seemed wrong. just don't hold. me up all that he's yet to say proud. because the trail. to look for common ground the one. companies like comcast for example is a company that is an anti-american as they get it as it's a company as anti-democratic as it gets comcast for sale on n.b.c.

and of course they are just out of of course i'd live parody trump epic sketches and see think that their banks sold liberal at sacking they are in ministration while the same time serving the terrorists so those people are in that cell situation should understand that they are terrorists. quest twenty fifth street the address listed in swiss medics register similar replies were used in the drug sold in switzerland comes from here. this blood collection center belongs to the australian company c.s.l. donate plasma save lives earn up to two hundred dollars

a month. there are donor ads everywhere which tell us that the volunteers are paid for their blood. as opposed to most european countries the usa allows compensation for blood donations this practice is legal. we enter the premises which are under heavy surveillance impossible to speak with the status of . this coming. as you know we do you know it's ok for us this is across the street it's good to get to. the center is in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. cleveland is a devastated city. the financial crisis of two thousand and eight was a fatal blow. pastor lester williams knows the reality of life in this neighborhood many of his church

followers sell their plasma. here you should know that. well you know i guess you know war is legal so i don't help rob with that it does when people just do it but what you strange is that companies they continue to call this a donation. but which is a donation way when you pay someone is not a go to. is not it's not free just little donation should be should be free to do they do exploiting exploring people who are in whatever conditions he is economically. and actually now to do

a nation to actually pay him for what i'll be in charge of a give away as described in charge in switzerland for the pleasant as told to make your money on it and both you know the little that they're giving to these people is not very much. in cleveland all the market leaders are represented c.d.'s out riffles. we also find octave pharma the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like that to. the head of a bull market goes there twice a week to sell its plasma. but i'll buy. budget right now. thirty two bucks for forty five dollars fifty. sure. so i had to say. true to twenty five. and i

found out that i can with a plasma or you know or you know that's the problem when you're on tight budget it's a fragile thing you know. we wanted to go inside with him to speak with the people in charge this turned out to be impossible the hostility increased the closer we got to the center. looking at you you were and public property it is never that is now my friend. so we question donors outside in the parking lot. this kind of extra money thing you know just to get a little money on the. indian it just kind of became a regular firstly first start you get fifty dollars the first. new customer in after day on tuesday or thursday is any two days

a week you get twenty dollars to forty dollars along if you've been donating. a year. as a starter let you know. that's yes this. is good for the families is good for my family and. so one hand wash the other. you know and does it for any kind of moral reason no one does it for them or no one no one does it because it helps people it's just it's one of the side of things is that it helps. the procedure is well established as soon as the plasma bottle is full the donors credit card is credited. here there are very few now. this is the plasma. so almost. like a regular. they put their money on your car immediately after you get done and.

sometimes. they forget to put the money on your car and you got to call the number on your car you know because if you don't call the number on your card you're going to be without money. after the economic crisis donations soared in the usa going from fifteen million in two thousand and seven to thirty two million in two thousand and fourteen look schafer is a sociologist at michigan university. when we look at the numbers of families reporting cash incomes below two dollars per person per day in any given month. it well more than doubles over a fifteen year period and when we look at the number of families who are who are on food stamps it actually quadrupled emergency that goes through the roof so

when all of these things are put in the same direction. we walked into the plasma clinic down the street and just ask people why are you here what's going on people lost their jobs haven't been able to find work you know in many cases that's going to be the only and i mean in the household it's their only option. we rejoined mark at the entrance to the center it didn't work out the way he wanted the center refused him because his blood pressure was too high. to be able to donate. and it's very important. i take my blood pressure medication and i think i think. then that you can build a good. it's a it's a financial issue it is it is it is. likely it's not life or death it's kind of has to do with. it is valuable stuff.

that i might have to ask friends that they you know just for you know i mean i'll take care of it soon i'll be able to i'll be able to get my blood pressure straighten out and that's why it is good for me to travel. we accompanied him to a small subsidized apartment that he's been living in for a year. money to make a cell phone home when i had my stroke it was about three years ago i went into the doctor's to be quite honest i was drinking a lot i was doing drugs i was combining a lot of bad stuff you know so the next day i went to the cleveland clinic which is one of our really good hospitals in cleveland. and the word with people that told

of a lot of money is you get raided it when you get raided it may means you can basically go there for free and get health care and as we're qualifying the lady do it she's a oh you're way below poverty level i'm like. you know there's below and there's a way below so that was an eye opener. there are times when. for my own self-esteem. i don't want to accept help or want to be able to. to say no thanks but no thinks to a god to form. it's kind of easy money. it's necessary at least for me it's necessary.

for mark and many other americans blood is last source of income. he could no longer donate he'd have no income. but all of these blood donations are affecting his health. david this is a doctor in one of the city's largest public hospitals metro health is the safety net system for cleveland we take care of people we're garbus of their ability to pay for a lot of our patients and the people that we take care of at metro health this is their one of the few strategies that they can use to get money out of the literature of say about the long term effects of donating blood to the weak i couldn't find anything in the literature describing what the effects or i know from talking to my patients who do donate plasma that they're tired so they get fatigued

they have headaches but beyond that. you now all i know is the red cross has one time a month and these guys are doing it twice a week. to talk to this individual who is donating my patient and he may not be able to afford a cell phone bill or rents and that is more important for his health potentially than the down side effects of donating because if he doesn't have a cell phone he can't get a job. or he can't pay his bills. you know how free is so. this is. the dilemma that were and. what if you could earn extra money while doing something great for others to farm up last month you can not only our plasma donations by dole to the treatment of rare chronic internet diseases you could also the usa is the world's main exporter of human class with seventy percent of the world market their success is based on

a foolproof recipe by building on this type of campaign they nurture the image of a country with excellent sanitary conditions. the market is under the supervision of the food and drug administration the f.d.a. stamp is a guarantee of quality opening the doors to the international market each week frozen plasma is dispatched in shipments mainly to europe. this is the other side of the american dream masses of poor people willing to sell their blood they provide an unlimited pool of primary material we wanted to understand the conditions in which blood is collected seven am in cleveland in the parking lot of pharma. i caved in the mud as dead heat we were abject at and i want to get no more i just smog and i didn't need flour we

need it most killed me so. i don't want to do gangnam i get it dad now praise you know it is look i'm provider but. you know a motor car. and. these stories illustrate the industrial pace and inadequate checks however the pharma assures the authorities that there is strict donor monitoring but if that's the case why didn't the swiss company let a sentence you have just why did they prevent us from talking to the staff it's our . donors selected to track we had to go and see for ourselves with a hidden camera. it was only a matter of time before congressional democrats would attempt to impeach and remove donald trump from the presidency well it's happening at this point it is unlikely this endeavor will succeed but this isn't stopping the endeavor trumper.

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