you know he should he did you pull. a motor car and here. are the mean this is killing me so. i don't want to do that number and also to 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 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. at the foot 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. don't do much if new. sickish it might add to. sit for them one. more sin office won't forget the additional. bit because. if. it does couldn't keep one. pushed who've come your juice said with glee but he's not the only one to be interested health is also an industry and blood donations are subject to the laws of the market. but not for. the. yes. when you were not before giving blood these 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. be to help them get up i hope that sponsored house and look spent on per yard. the sinful old luge bend in this heist in these the boots bend and since not in the loop in this plaza on vesey neat plethora. and given thoughts to them on that include based on the tile in the system plus muscle does not at. sent

the assuming it detect in the entropy tail him get off to the. tightest footpaths he entered and the end colson due to low stop and decent as well the woman is at stealth and use the title to us into fast off to put scent gate in the still going on to talk till needed induced to leave the sinfield men did. look their own to come into. 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 are the donors aware of it. that doesn't mean it was sunk of or needed doing yesterday between a song papa hasa. saying by no name of the boss of the shows i.

don't want to so i'm against it if it comes with the needles on it pierre priscus assaulted vernia. it's been a case wait he said on his appeal to the summit and watching. 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 seven percent of our blood is made up of plastic plastic is a strong colored liquid poison the whole of life that transports water and nutrients

to all sounds or not it is composed of approximately ninety percent water and ten percent. of the 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 farm in switzerland which we discover through these promotional films of all 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 to 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. 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 presumably they're covered by in most insurance yes 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 you'll be in good shape when you make those products it's not the case. now a truly global organization. remains a family business dedicated to the way it's going to patients to go. in

that life adventure. to route 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 or. tumor. yeah. but i'm ok. through this fierce storm. was a safer more locally especially trying. to get a free not their own when my head hunted out the clerk could have on the south and a cop but so you never had a before or so to create. quite. as a shock at up taking them kindly softly deeply sad. on the empty could also flash plugin to seek you formed a trunk on to flee notice something to see them. as a. mysterious coffee to see them simply react to put on ok computer bender not to last mean america right there is no magic amount of the now coming on the very most likely turn red critter five minutes from us and we see that clear out

that. the case of the saw. and that group from pivot called on this moment that would be our special. kopechne it was mostly said to be the seat of. where is her life changing drug from where is the blood in the drug from from swiss donors. does. i want me. there it's 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 origin these expert analyzed plasma samples each week as well as the blood derived products that are used in hospitals

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it's. quest twenty fifth street the address list 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 static

kill just yank it justs taking shit you train me you know we do for you from the ok for us the create an 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. to. the. sun and. would i

guess you know it's legal i will probably get it does when people do threaten to. but what is strange is that companies they continue to call this a donation. but what she's a donation when when you pay someone is not to do it this. is not it's not free desolate donations should be should be free that when do they do exploiting their exploration people who are in whatever conditions he is economically. and so that actually now to do a nation to actually pay him for not in charge of the. charge in switzerland for the pleasant and so they're making money on it and both were you know cut a little bit bigger giving to these people is not very much.

in cleveland all the market leaders are represented c.e.o.'s out riffles. we also find octo pharma the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like that to. that of the full mark 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 the full fifty dollars a month sure it's so so out of it to say of the ballpark around. three to 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 to you guys were and almost property

it is happy that is now behind my friends everything. 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 then it just kind of you know became a regular firstly first start you get fifty dollars the first five times as a new customer in after that on tuesdays or thursdays any two days of the week and 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 the school is helpful 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 one of the side effects 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 much like a micro like a regular beats a car you i'm sorry 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 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 quadruples 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 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. it's if you can donate it it's just a find it shows you should. it is it is. not life or death it's going to have to do with. it's valuable stuff. and i'm going 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 straight now and that's why it is good. 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 doctors to be quite honest i was drinking a lot i was doing drugs and 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 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 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 no no thanks but no thanks to it out to pharma it's kind of easy money in. it's necessary at least for me it's necessary to know. that crock pot is not up. for mark and many other americans blood is his 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 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 were 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 and i smiled was 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 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 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 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 the pharma. i caved in the mud this is a dead heat we were abject at and i want to get no more i just mop that they need flour we need but most kill me so. i don't want to do it and them i get it now praise you know it is look i'm provider but. you know a motor car 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

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