if 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. samples don't want it new. sickish it might add to. them wonder. more sin office won't ever get in additional. to. get. it that's going to want. pushed who've come in can to build a pool on the neck at crucial not to get. this woman flown. if. they have 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 for. a look at this this is a when you don't 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 soldier private companies something the red cross doesn't advertise. to help them i hope to sponsor thomas and luke bend them for ya. the

sinful old luge bend in the us iced in these the boots bend and since. they live in plus my. own vest my. plethora. and getting thoughts to them on that include tile in the system plus muscle doesn't move it. sent the samangan direct into entropy taylor get it out of the not in the. tightest food. the on call some due to low stop and decent this is while the woman is at stealth and uses the title to us into fast off to put scent gate in this or 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 this sale by the donors

aware of it. doesn't mean it was sunk of or needed doing yesterday between a song top boss. saying by no memo the boss of the shows i. don't want to so on a deal said if it could have done it most on a p.r. priscus assault i'd vernia. this been a case wait he said don't 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 down to fix fifty seven percent of our blood is made up of. plastic is a strong other liquid poisons 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 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 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 a 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 presumably they're covered by in most insurance 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 available enough to just go fuel for your country the plows were off and you'll be in good shape when you make those products that's not the case. now a global organization. remains a family business dedicated to it which is going to keep patients to go further 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 to mars life has become easier so much so that it would be difficult for her to go without. and they

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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 in the end. can you stay not only cocked i just lost my cool just. down there again so i have to pass it up all day still going stephen oh you say you say. all equal time that i will be don t. tasted now if i fall but the bait but the. word feed. is copenhagen didn't do dns over there plus the could be simply going to endorse. the six buffalo fifty. competition made up stuff for my pleasure ok

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this community. we need to realize that collectively we have will power with real real power to shape our destinies and to be authors as of offbeat so we need to seize these opportunities and organize a much. quest twenty fifth street of 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 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 speak with the standard let's. just take it just kind of taking shit your driveway you know with me from the outside from the ok first the create an across the street and get this straight 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. 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 which is a donation way when you pay someone is not a job it. is not it's not free desolate donation should be should be free of until they do exploiting their exploring people who are in whatever condition the is

economically. and actually now to do a nation actually paying for what i'll be in charge of a. charge in switzerland for the pleasant and so make your money on it and both. you know cut a little bit to giving to these people because not very much. in cleveland all the market leaders are represented see sal riffles. we also find octave pharma the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like that to. the head 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 the fall. sure

so so out at the same ballpark around. two twenty five. 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. looking at you you were and public property it is that everybody is now part 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 you know 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 of the week you

get twenty dollars and then 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 other. you know and 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 just 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 donor's credit card is credited. here right here now. this is the plasma or a blood bank or so most. like a regular of visa card your. money on your car immediately after you get done.

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 car and still you're 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 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 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 you know 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. that then if you can build a it's a it's a it's a financial issue it is it is is it. luckily it's not life or death it's kind of has to do with. that as valuable stuff.

that might have to ask friends if they 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 travel. 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 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 and the word with people that don't have a lot of money is 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 it was 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 it out to pharma it's kind of easy money in. it's necessary at least for me it's necessary no.

it's not rot. for mark and many other americans blood is his last source of income. 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 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 mile 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 down 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 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 and 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 abject at and i want to get no more i just mop that they need flour we need

but. i don't want to do gangnam i get it dad now praise you know it is look i'm providing. 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 a sentence you have just why did they prevent us from talking to the staff is consistent how are its donors selected to check we had to go and see for ourselves with a hidden camera. they

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