The global status of human milk banking.

donor milk human milk human milk bank

Journal

Maternal & child nutrition
ISSN: 1740-8709
Titre abrégé: Matern Child Nutr
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101201025

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
06 Feb 2024
Historique:
revised: 18 10 2023
received: 13 01 2023
accepted: 01 11 2023
medline: 6 2 2024
pubmed: 6 2 2024
entrez: 6 2 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Human milk provides essential nutrition for infants and holds many health benefits for infants and mothers. When a mother's own milk is not available for her infant, the World Health Organization recommends feeding donor human milk (DHM) from a human milk banking facility. DHM is human milk produced, collected then donated to a human milk bank (HMB). HMBs serve many vital functions, including screening donor mothers, then collecting, processing, storing, and allocating DHM to recipients. The first HMB opened in 1909, and today there are more than 700 HMBs globally. Unfortunately, HMB facilities are not present in all locales, with notable gaps in South Asia and Africa. Additionally, there are no global standards to guide HMB operational procedures. Even though most HMBs attempt to employ quality control systems to provide safe DHM, differences in community needs, resource availability, and a range of methods and policies to execute processes result in significant variations in DHM quality and HMB operations. Robust and collaborative systems that ensure safe and equitable access to DHM are needed. In this paper, we present a global snapshot of current human milk banking practices; review an interdisciplinary framework to guide and support HMB activities as an integrated part of health and newborn care systems; discuss factors that contribute to HMB sustainability; outline barriers to scaling HMBs worldwide; and highlight knowledge, policy, and research gaps. Developing global HMB guidance and rigorous, adaptable standards would strengthen efforts to improve newborn health.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38318679
doi: 10.1111/mcn.13592
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e13592

Subventions

Organisme : Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation

Informations de copyright

© 2023 PATH. Maternal & Child Nutrition published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Auteurs

Emily LaRose (E)

Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Kimberly Mansen (K)

PATH, Seattle, Washington, USA.

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