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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 plasma a yellow liquid rich in proteins it's the main component of blood it's more expensive than oil burners he looks crushed us films are bought and are down to did he does it process tell us a new book anybody smears quite acceptable p. dumb a shall die inch systemic keep down may. be sure to push he did you pull. off a motor car and commute the meanness she got most killed me so. i don't want to do

and i'm sure 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 head on oh yeah may you know why 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 lois on carlos sees his act as a sign of commitment to the community. and it's something i think that's more than one hundred million donations are collected each year worldwide in two thousand and fifteen. the swiss red cross register 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. so people don't want it new. sick or it might add to. them want to do more. good in addition. to. that. this couldn't keep one. pushed who've come in can the board to put the naked push on to get. this woman for woman. if. they have blood is a quite peculiar juice said posts dabble 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 not for. what will

this. is 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 yours. 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. be to help them get up i hope it's once a thousand looks bent on per yard. the sinful old luge bend in this heist in these the boot bend in st john's they live in this plaza on vesey. plethora. and giving talks to them on the include pushed on the tile in the system

plus muscle doesn't look at. sent these magnet detect in the entropy taylor get off to the internet ticed. the eye nicolson to tool stop and decent as well the woman is at stealth and uses the title to us into fast off to put scent gate in the so going on to talk till needed induced to leave the sinfield men did. look to their own 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 other donors are aware of it. that doesn't mean it has some kind of or maybe doing yesterday between a song papa has some. saying by no memo the boss of the shows i.

don't wonder so i'm against the defense because we don't need most on a p.r. priscus assaulted vernia. this been a case wait he said don't his appeal to the summit and watching. them when you don't do something to new mashup 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 outlast typically fifty seven percent of our blood is made of the plastic

plastic is this true all other liquids poisons the whole flight that transports water and nutrients to all sounds or not it is composed of approximately ninety percent water and ten percent protein plasma plasma industry is healing chant a handful of companies share the world market baxter in the usa c.s.l. bearing in australia and your foals in spring and the company pharma 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 with asthma 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 time freeze and makes thousands of leaders of human plasma these companies control a market which is worth seventeen billion dollars and

a growing steadily history so that the plasma gong margaery the president and co-founder of doctor 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 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 this sounds easier you say replies will be available 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 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. 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. that then phocion have got home and they may say shut up it's very janya. to escape me quit i want to say. that today in fact in fact the only bit.

of also he had or didn't forsee all of whom are. going to skate let it rest but i'm ok. through this futile. as the saying. trying. to get their footing not there when my head from county clerk could have on the soap and make up but so you'd have a day before. class. as a shop get up take them kindly softly deeply set on them to could all see flashes to seek you formed. some. to see him. as a. toughie to see. you have to. spend an hour through just me in america to comment on ok may. very muscular to madrid

created a format. that clear out that. face of the. band that from feedback call. this moment that you are special. and. competent was my place and. where is her life changing drug from where is the blood in the drug from from swiss donors. i went to. the race meeting. 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. not just in profit pools in yet interestingly is they not only cocked and just lost my cool. and down to earth again. and to passing up all test them. he said. that i will eat on three tested now five but the bait but he. would feel he. didn't do then see the plus the keep it simple he's going to endorse off phone ya know. six buffalo fifty. competition made up tough question ok if it's good to feed and assist these things because you don't remove the town shelf that. says ten days to

complete the school before you see the. fish eating at pools. of police to construct the spent were so as far with the worse i was in gets the name he's in the much assisted sale for you to pick from from fifty and so city chattanooga announcing it was a minute just the feeling when. i was. ten from saddam. city and i let these it in didn't you see in the classroom lost the fight to the last inference he's making diet you from t. it's my own saying could i get includes two or three from cleveland. west twenty fifth street. to the no cleveland united states we decided to travel there.

when we had the caribbean or respect the environment protect the environment respect the rule of law be punished for it because a one of your. probably going. to cause you doesn't have a right it's a responsibility to protect its citizens and. it's . quest twenty fifth street the address listed in swiss

medics register 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. just yank it it's taking actions to train me you know we did you know from the ok for us the create an across the street is get straight 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. would. i guess you know it's legal so i will probably get it that's when people decided to do it but what is strange is that the companies they continue to call this a donation. but which is

a donation way when you pay someone is not to do it this. is not a free desolate donation should be should be free that when do they do exploiting their exploration 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 they're making money on it in both ways you know the little that they're giving to abuse people is not very much. in cleveland all the market leaders are represented to see south pole so. we also find octo pharma the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like that to use to sell its plasma. budget right now where

a month for thirty two bucks for red forty five dollars for the full fifty dollars a month insurance so that's a lot of the saying of the ballpark around. two to twenty five a month plans boy 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 to you you guys were almost there pretty it is pretty that is now my friend. i mean. so we questioned 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 bills and stuff and in it just kind of you know became

a regular firstly first start you get fifty dollars the first. new customer in after that on tuesdays or thursdays any two days a week you get twenty dollars in any 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 it is cool it 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 that's one of the side effects is that it helps. the procedure is well established as soon as the plasma bottle is full the donor's credit card is credited. here you know right here now. this is the plasma or

a blood bank or so most like oh my god like a regular visa card you're saying they put the money on your card immediately after you get done. sometimes. they forget to put the money on your card and you got to call the number on your card you know because if you don't call the number on your current 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 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 and. 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 book prichard medication and i think i think i. would then if you can donate it it's a it's

a find it shows the issues. it is it is. luckily it's not life or death it's not asked to do. it's valuable stuff. and i'm going to have. fun with it 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 now and that's why it is good. we accompanied him to a small subsidized apartment that he's been living in three years. money to make silva 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 in the word with people that don't have 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. 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 i don't want to accept help i want to be able to. to say you know no thanks but no thanks to a god to farm on. it's kind of easy money in. it's

necessary at least for me it's necessary. for mark and many other americans blood is the last source of income. if you got sick he could no longer donate he'd have no income. but all of these blood donations are affecting his health. david logos 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 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 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 down a plasma that they're tired so they get fatigued they have headaches but beyond that. 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. downside 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 this is the dilemma that we're and. what 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. that he

relapsed lacked at i don't want to get no more i just smog and i didn't need flour we need but most kill me so. i don't want to do it and them i get it now raise. you know if this was a provider. 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 santa you have just why did they prevent us from talking to the staff it's just how are its donors selected to check we had to go and see for ourselves with a hidden camera.

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going to. police. the military come on the slobodan dies after taking poison the war crime school in the hague. so the white helmets are again in control to see that softer reporters without borders tried to cancel a press event that was critical of the request was rejected as being an attack on free speech. very disappointing to see. high school.