all together. 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 plasma a yellow liquid rich in proteins it's the main component of blood it's more expensive than oil burners he looks. down kitty does it processed asa new book anybody smiths called acceptable p. dumb i shall die inch systemic keep down may. be sure to push you did you pull. off a motor car or. the meanness that 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 us to interview the i don't know if. 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 and lows on carlos sees his act as a sign of commitment to the community. and the city 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 money to do more. good in addition.

that's going to one. push towards come in can the bold approach the need to get. this woman. if you've been equipped with it but blood is a quite peculiar juice 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 it. will it's just. that when you don't before giving blood the swiss donors must complete a medical question ear 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 i hope to 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 pushed on tile in the system plus muscle. sent the samangan detect in the entropy tail him to be tail ties to. the on call some glue tool 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

into sleep sinfield men. took their own to come into. the plasma fractionation industry these are the pharmaceutical companies that buy eighty thousand liters a 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. doesn't have or needed to it yesterday between a song pop boss. saying by no man the boss of the shows. more don't understand it d.l. said if it could have done it months on priscus assault i'd vernia. his weight 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. who are the players behind this industry. we decided to track the plasma trade. to see it. typically fifty five percent of our blood is made of a plastic plastic. liquid poison the whole of life that 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 quiet for some patients as a lifelong therapy and presumably they're covered by in most insurance companies 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 for you and 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 the way it's 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 the cac more globally especially trying. to get day for the moon not they had

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from from swiss donors. think it does. 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. not just in profit also thought in yet interesting is they not only cooked and it's just. down to. the department they still

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that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each day. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was a game still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arcade and i secretly promised to never again like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one to. speak to now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its make.

the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into pegues these are the countries with we can recall them is that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of low gloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline almost a decade how good are the results. by the people gathered in which the wider world get people to see what i. believe will be she. i mean to for legal. challenge must. think it's the family. while the same mission is still in place who one of the consequences is to weaken

bluebirds. will first be one of those was the truth the consider is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision maker. quest twenty fifth street the address listed in swiss medics register. as used in the drug sold in switzerland comes from here. this blood collection center belongs to the australian companies 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. with the static kill just yank it just taking shit you drain me you know we'd be from the outside from the caves as this is really a class a strange get it right. yeah. 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 that.

would you know i guess you know it's legal so i will probably get it does will people just do it but what you strange is that companies they continue to call this a donation. but what she's a donation way when you pay someone is not a don't. it's not it's not free just a little donation should be should be free of a deal to do exploiting exploring people who are in whatever condition the is economically. and actually now to do a nation actually paying for the i'll be in charge of acute awareness of the charge and. for the pleasant soul to make your money on it and both work

you know the little good they're giving to these people is not very much. in cleveland all of the market leaders are represented c.e.o.'s out. we also find pharma the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like the tattoos there is a bull market goes there twice a week to sell its plasma. budget right now where for thirty two bucks for forty five dollars for the fifty dollars a month insurance so that's a lot of it to say the ballpark around. trying to turn twenty five. and i found out that i can with the 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 all of my friends meeting so we question donors outside in the parking lot. first those this kind of like the extra money thing you know just to get a little money on the new. indian it just kind of became a regular firstly first start you get fifty dollars the first five times as a new customer in after day on tuesdays or thursdays any two days a week you get twenty dollars and in it go up to forty dollars along if you've been donating now for a year. as a starter let you know two times a week that's a lot yes this school. is good for the families is good for my family

and. so one hand wash the. no one does it for any kind of moral reasons no one does it for them or no one no one does it because it helps people it's one of the side of things is that in. the procedure is well established as soon as the plasma bottle is full the donors credit card is credited. you know if you know. this is the plasma bank or. almost. like a regular on. your arm so they put their money on your card immediately after you get done and. sometimes. they forget to put the money on your car and you've got to call the number on your car you know because if you don't call the number on your card i'm still going 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 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 food assistance 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 re. joined 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. them. and it's very important because. i take my blood pressure medication and i think i think i. said if you can donate it it's a it's a financial issue it is it is it is. likely it's not life or death it's not asked to do it. as valuable stuff. that i might have to run for along with a 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

keep track. and 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 so the next day i went to the cleveland clinic which is one of our really good hospitals and cleveland. in the word with people that don't have a lot of money as you get raided it when you get raided it means you can basically go there for free and get health care and as we're qualifying the lady do it you

say oh you're way below poverty level. you know there's below and it is way below so that was an eye opener. there are times when. for my own self-esteem. and i want to accept help or 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. that crock pot it right up. 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 wind. 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 in metro health is the safety net system for cleveland we take care of people or guard this 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 mile and once a week i couldn't find anything in the literature describing what the effects or i know from talking to my patients who do done a 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 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 freeze 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 a plasma you can not only are plasma donations by dole to the treatment of rare chronic internet it diseases you could own the usa as 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 the pharma. doing no more dead heat we were abject at and i want to get no more i just smog and i didn't need flour we need but. 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 this is how our it's donors selected to check we had to go and see for ourselves with a hidden camera.

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