What Do We Do?
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The Vampire Cup saves over 10,000 lives every year
What is AMSA?
The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA). AMSA is the peak representative body for over 17,000 medical students across Australia’s 22 medical schools. As a non-profit organisation, our operations are driven entirely by unpaid student volunteers from across the country, who continue to build upon AMSA’s successes of previous years.
What is the Vampire Cup?
The Vampire Cup is AMSA’s annual blood donation drive, run as a competition between Australian medical schools to see who can donate the most blood! Australian Red Cross Lifeblood facilitates our national blood drive with each university having a Lifeblood donation group to electronically record donation numbers. In 2023, the competition will run over eight weeks from April 2nd to May 31st with each whole blood, plasma or platelet donation counting as 1 point to your university tally.
The race to save lives begins soon with students able to donate as many times as possible during the eight week period in order to claim glory for their university! As not all students are eligible to donate blood, any donations from family, friends, colleagues or acquaintances can count towards their university tally – so spread the word and get donating!