plasma a yellow liquid rich in proteins it's the main component of blood it's more expensive than oil. it down kitty does it processed us a new book anybody smith's quite acceptable p. dumb i shall die age systems damage keep down man and b.b.q. he sure did you pull. a motor car or you'll ever been in this town has killed me so. i don't want to do the animal or falsity 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 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. and the son of a state that'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. southwest of the mind of new. sick or it might add to. the. more similar of our getting additional. cases. because. each desk. when. pushed who've come in. the void to pull on the

need to get into this woman for all that. blood is a quite peculiar juice said 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 just. 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 sold to private companies something the red cross doesn't advertise. to help them i hope to sponsor thousand look spend them for ya. the sinful old luge bend in the us iced in these the boots bend and since. 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 move that. sent the samangan direct into entropy taylor get off to the indian. ties to. the ai nicolson due to low stop and decent these as well the woman is at stealth and use 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 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. 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. don't wonder so on adele said if it could have done it most on a p.r. priscus assaulted vernia. it's been a case wait he said don't his appeal to you so much but i want she will. push him when you don't do something to me muschamp innocent first discovery the majority of the donor's blood is sold to pharmaceutical industries. the industry is so interested in carlos's blood for a specific reason its 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 sounds last typically fifty seven percent of our blood is made of the plastic plastic is the strong 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 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 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 freeze and 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 quiet for some patient groups as a lifelong therapy presumably they're covered by in most insurance they have to be

asked 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 easy when 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. a truly global organization. remains a family business dedicated to the way it's going to 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 tamar's life has become easier so much so that it would be difficult for her to go without. that. and they may say shut up it's very janya. to escape was quick. to say. that today in fact in fact. if. you had her. tumor. you know want to skate let it rest but i'm ok. as the saying three more. to get their footing not there on my head i'm to go to clerk to divine this open mic up but so you don't have to have a. quack. get

up thank them kindly softly. on them to could all see flashes to seek. to clean it is something to see come. to see. you have to. spend an hour in america to come out of the no coming ye must create there for us and we see that clear that. face of this. and that from pete because. 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 when the. next day. 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 you. know just i just lost my cool. down to earth again so i asked him. but the person appalled there still he's known stephen oh he said he said. ali quote time that i will be don t. tasted now if i follow it but the bait but the key is to do with food. is copenhagen didn't do v.n. seed over there plus the keep it simple you going to endorse.

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west twenty fifth street. they really don't know cleveland united states we decided to travel there. this footage is unique because there's a tribal lands on normally off limits to the public eric's allowed in because he's little dog. people here know him simply as dog to eric he's rich famous some always on the move saving y'all some. going out going to people from mama zone. all the hawks that we along with are on the one.

blissed in swiss medics registered. 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 just kind of taking shit you drain me you know we'd be from you know from the ok for as the create an accessory just get this straight. 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. to.

goodwill that. would i guess you know it's legal i will probably get it does will people just do that but what is strange is that the companies they can cheat. but which is a donation way when you pay someone luring people and so make your money on it and both work you know because a little bit they're giving to these people is not very much. in cleveland all the market leaders are represented c.d.'s out reefs. we

also find pharma the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like that too. bad as a tool mart goes there twice a week to sell its plasma. budget right now where for thirty two bucks for a forty five dollars for the full fifty dollars a month sure the so so out at the same ballpark around. two 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. looking at you you were and public property

it is that everybody is now calling my friends. 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 you know the. 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 a week you get twenty dollars and then it go up to forty dollars along if you've been donating and 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 families and. so one hand wash does. 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 just

that one of the side effects is that it help. the procedure is well established as soon as the plasma bottle is full the donor's credit card is credited. you know if you know. this is the plasma bank or so most likely like a regular visa call or your arm so they put 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 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 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 income i mean in that 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 to. them. and it's very important because. i take my blood pressure medication and i think i think i. said if you can donate if 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 with. that as valuable stuff. i might have to ask friends 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 trying. 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 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 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 doing it you say oh you're way below poverty level i'm like. 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 or want to be able to. to say no no thanks but no thanks to a god to pharma. 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 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 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 blood 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 donate 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 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 this is the dilemma that were 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. i can do no more dead heat we will have lacked that and i want to get no more i just mop and i didn't need flour we need it out most clearly so. i don't want. did adam i get it now praising his work on provider book. you know much of. 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

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