it's more expensive than oil burners he looks. it down kitty does it processed us a new book anybody smith's quite acceptable p. dumb i shall die inch systems dammit keep down man and b.b.q. he should he did you pull. a motor car. or bumming this is killing me so. i don't want to do that no more 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 and. they don't want something they a do all 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 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. sit for the money to do more. good in addition. because. it just couldn't keep one. pushed who've come in can to build a pool on the naked eye. not to get into this woman.

who did it 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. will this. 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. the sinful old luge bend in this heist in these the boots bend and since. they left in plus more. investment. and getting thoughts to them on the include tile in the system plus muscle the. scent the samangan detect indenture tail and get off the internet ticed. the uncool salute to low stop and. these as well the woman said style to use the title to us into fast off to put scent gate in the still 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 a 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 have or needed doing yesterday between a song pop boss. saying by no memo the boss of the shows i. don't wonder so i'm against it if it could have done it most on a p.r. priscus this or that vernia. just wait to see it done is appeal to the summit and watch. them when you don't use too much openness old 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 up of. plastic. other liquids poisons the whole life that transports water and usually. 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 pharma in switzerland which we discover through these promotional films. 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 patient groups as a lifelong therapy and presumably they're covered by in most insurance companies they have to be as they're 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 ploughs well and 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 like 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 hard. to do skate was quick. to say. that today. if. you had or. you know. three storm. as a safer more globally especially trying. to get day for the not fair amount on my head from theology clerk to divine the south make up but do you know that day before or so to create. as a bishop got up to take some kind this off with the police and on them to could also

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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 origin 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 also thought in yet interesting is they not only caught up to and it's. been down to. the department will test them. he said. are equal to it i think will be down to taste. but the bait but the. live feed. didn't do. the k.p.

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includes to through from cleveland. west twenty fifth street. cleveland united states we decided to travel there. was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles of. the new socks for the tell you that celebrity gossip the tabloid lifestyles of the most important. off the bad guys and tell you

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quest twenty fifth street the address listed in swiss medics register some of your 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 stand. just yank it just coming in she did you know we did from the outside from the ok for us the creation across the street is good. yet.

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. would argue. it's legal i will help rob we're going to. 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 dotage. there's no free desolate donation should be should be free of until they do exploiting exploiting people who are in whatever conditions he is economically. and actually now to do a nation to actually pay him for valid in charge of the. charge in switzerland for the pleasant and so make your money on it in both ways you know the little good to giving to these people is not very much. in cleveland all the market leaders are represented c.e.o.'s south poles. we also find octo 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 a month for thirty two bucks for red forty five dollars for a full fifty dollars a month insurance is so so out of it to say of the ballpark around. trying to turn twenty five a month 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 and. nothing you thought were almost property it is that is now my friend. so we question donors

outside in the parking lot. first those it's kind of like the extra money thing you know just to get a little money on the side you know hope new bills and stuff. just kind of you know became a regular star you get fifty. new customers in. a week and get. up to forty along if you've been donating. a year. started let you know two times a week that's yes it's cool it is good for the families is good for my family and. so one hand wash good. 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 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 a blood bank or so most. like a regular visa card your they put their money on your card immediately after you get done. sometimes. they forget to put the money on your card and you've got to call the number on your car you know because if you don't call the number on your stuff 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 schaefer is a sociologist at michigan university. when we look at

the numbers of families reporting catching. two dollars per person per day in any given month. it well more than doubles over at. thousand 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 and in many cases that's going to be the only and i mean in that household and 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 if you can't pay it it's it's a find it show issue it is it is it is. likely it's not life or death it's not asked to do it. it's valuable stuff. but i'm going to have to run with it 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. 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 was spout 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 in cleveland. in the word with people that thought of 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 there's 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 no

thanks but no fix to a god to farm. 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 these blood donations are affecting his health. david is a doctor in one of the city's largest public hospitals. the safety net system for cleveland we take care of people or guard us 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 was that we i couldn't find anything in the literature describing what the effects or i know from talking to my patients who do down a plasma that they're tired so they get fatigued they have headaches but beyond that. and 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 was 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 weren't. but if you could earn extra money while doing something great for others to farm up last month you can not only are plasma donations by dole to the treatment of rare chronic internet it diseases you could own the usa is the world's main exporter of human plasma 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 small and i didn't need flour we need it most killed me so. i don't want. raised you know it does look. 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 santa you have just why did they prevent us from talking to the staff it's consistent how are its donors selected to check we had to go and see for ourselves

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