Please review these important donation eligibility requirements

The full list can be found here.

1. You must weigh at least 110lbs to be eligible for blood donation for your own safety.
2. If you are not feeling well on the day of donation, please feel better and come back another day - donors presenting with a fever or a phlegm producing cough are not eligible to donate. Wait until you have completed antibiotic treatment for sinus, throat or lung infection before coming to donate.
3. If you have traveled in an area where malaria is found, you are not eligible to donate for 12 months after the last date of travel in such areas. 3 years must elapse after living in a country where malaria is found before you are eligible to donate again.
4. If you have spent long periods of time in the UK and certain parts of Europe, you are not eligible to donate.
5. If you were born in or have lived in certain countries in Western Africa, or have had close contact with persons who were born in or who lived in certain West African countries, you are not eligible to donate.
6. If you're unsure as to whether or not you are eligible or which of these do or do not apply to you, please read the full list of requirements or feel free to ask the Blood Drive Coordinators at: james.mandilk@yale.edu; hetal.mistry@yale.edu; or margaret.yim@yale.edu