component of blood it's more expensive than oil burners he looks. it down to did he does it process tell us a new book anybody's misquote acceptable p. dum i shall die age systems keep down man i'm meant to be beautiful he should apply he did you pull. a motor car and here. are the mean this album has killed me so. i don't want to do that number of most of us. 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 arrest or interview the i don't know if. they don't want something a do or 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 and lows on carlos sees his act as

a sign of commitment to the community. of the state it's 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 over much of new. sickish it might add to. for the money to do more. good in addition. because. it just couldn't keep one. pushed who've come in can't push was done. to build

a pool on the need to get into this woman. who they are but blood is a quite peculiar jew said devil 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. this. is a when you don't before giving blood the 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 sold to private companies something the red cross doesn't advertise.

to help them. sponsor thomas and luke spend them for ya. does enfold loot spend in the us highest in these the boot spend and since not in the loop in the us plus more. investment. in getting thoughts to them on that include tile in the system plus muscle that. sent these manget direct indenture tail him to the indentured to tail ties to. the uncool salute to low stop and. these as well the woman is at stealth and 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 the sale of the donors aware of it. that doesn't have or needed doing yesterday between a song papa has some. saying i know many. more don't wonder so i'm against it if it comes with the needle so it p.r. priscus all that vernia. he said don't his appeal to the summit and watching. them when you don't do so 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. who are the players behind this industry. we decided to track the plasma trade. to fix fifty seven percent of our blood is made of the plastic plastic. other liquids poisons the whole flight that transports water and nutrients to all sounds and. it is composed of approximately ninety percent water and ten percent protein. plasma industry is here 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 easier to say replies will be a bit well enough to just go through your population your country the plows 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. the me. to escape was quick. to say. that today. he had her. tumor. on disk. three storm. as a safer more globally especially trying. to get a footing not lay a rumor on my head. clerk put him on the south and make up but so you never had a before or so to create. like. as a shop you had up taken from kindness of the police that. own them to could also flash

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i want me. to race me. next they. didn't 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 and you. know just in profit pools. is they not only cooked and it's. down to. the department who test them. but. it would feed. didn't do then see.

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inference he scraped the diet different my own so i could actually get into pools to do from cleveland. west twenty fifth street. cleveland united states we decided to travel there. with no make just manufacture consent instead of public wells. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. when the final larry go around to lift certainly the one post that. we can all middle of the room signals. to the real news is really all.

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our. earth. is full for. last time we traced a chain of all each one of will carrying twenty kilos of drugs to this very first offense to. lose that they just the word for it. is the very we are all medical men boy there is the this is for me. a guy like it would be a well i don't was there for no baby don't get a miracle. i walk down a great. proud walk.

right now. this. quest twenty fifth street the address listed in swiss medics registered some of the plasma 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

. it just yank it it's taking actions to train me you know with the fields from the ok first the create an across the street it's good to get. 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 to the.

well you know i guess you know it's legal so i will probably get it does what. people just do it but what you strange is that companies they continue to call this a donation. but which is a donation when when you pay someone is not to do it because. it's not it's not free just with a donation should be should be fruit have been delivered to 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 the. charge in switzerland for the pleasant and so make your money on it in both where you get you know the little good to giving to these people because not very much.

in cleveland all the market leaders are represented see south poles. we also find octave pharma the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like that to. that of a bull market goes there twice a week to sell its plasma. budget right now where i'm on the thirty two bucks for red forty five dollars for the full fifty dollars a month insurance so so i have to say of the ballpark around. three to twenty five a month and i found out that i can with the plaids bar 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 and. nothing you knew i were property if you have that is now my friend meaning so we question donors. in the parking lot. this kind of extra money thing you know just to get a little money on a new. indian it just kind of became a regular firstly first start you get fifty dollars the first. new customer in after on tuesday or thursday as any two days of the week you get twenty dollars in any go up to forty dollars along if you've been donating now for a year. it's starting to let you know two times a week that's it yes it's cool it is good for the families is good for my family and. so one hand wash the. 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 or a blood bank or so most. like a regular visa card you are saying they put their money on your car immediately after you get done. 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 car and stuff you want to be without money. after the economic crisis donations stored in the usa going from fifteen million in

two thousand and seven to thirty two million in two thousand and fourteen luke schaffer 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 food assistance goes through the roof so when all of these things are put in the same direction and. we walked into the plasma clinic down the street just ask people why are you here what's going on people lost their jobs haven't been able to find work and. in many cases that's going to be the only and i mean in the household to 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 it's it's it's a find it show you show. it is it is. likely it's not life or death it's not asked to do. it's still. the money. from the day you know just 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 straight out and that's why it. is good the meeting. we accompanied him to a small subsidized apartment that he's been living in for

a year. money to make it solve a home but i had my stroke it was about three years ago i went into the doctors 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 in the word with people that thought of a lot of money as you get raided it when you get raided it may mean you can basically go there for free and get health care and as we're qualifying the lady doing it you say oh you're way below poverty level i'm like way below 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 i want to be able to. say you know no thanks but no thanks to a god to farm on. it's kind of easy money. it's necessary at least for me it's necessary. for mark and many other americans blood is his last source of income. if he got sick he could no longer donate he'd have no income. but all of these blood donations are affecting his health. david margolick 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 plus my own life of the week 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 know 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's 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 hope freese so. this is the this is the dilemma that we're in. now. but 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 it 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 abot dad and i want to get no more i just smog and i didn't need flour we need but it kills me so. i don't want to do gangnam i get it raised you know it is look i'm providing. you know. i'm giving. 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 how our it's donors selected to check we had to go and see for ourselves with a hidden camera. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president bush. or some want to be preached. at you're going to be prosperous like them before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first sit. down at once up. on a flimsy off let down one by its nature the finish was enough. when seeking out

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