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Maintaining human milk bank services throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic: A global response [PDF]

Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2021
If maternal milk is unavailable, the World Health Organization recommends that the first alternative should be pasteurised donor human milk (DHM). Human milk banks (HMBs) screen and recruit milk donors, and DHM principally feeds very low birth weight ...
Natalie Shenker, Marta Staff, Amy Vickers, Joao Aprigio, Satish Tiwari, Sushma Nangia, Ruchika Chugh Sachdeva, Vanessa Clifford, Anna Coutsoudis, Penny Reimers, Kiersten Israel‐Ballard, Kimberly Mansen, Radmila Mileusnic‐Milenovic, Aleksandra Wesolowska, Johannes B. van Goudoever, Mohammadbagher Hosseini, Daniel Klotz, Anne Hagen Grøvslien, Gillian Weaver, Virtual Collaborative Network of Milk Banks and Associations   +19 more
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Cost analysis of establishing and operating the first human milk bank at Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children in Vietnam: an activity-based costing ingredients study [PDF]

International Breastfeeding Journal
Background Breastfeeding is the biological norm for feeding infants and young children. When mothers’ breastmilk is unavailable, donor human milk (DHM) from a human milk bank (HMB) becomes the next option for small vulnerable newborns.
Minh V. Hoang, Tuan T. Nguyen, Anh T. Tran, Toan Q. Luu, Mai Q. Vu, Hoang T. Tran, Oanh T. X. Nguyen, Roger Mathisen   +7 more
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Human milk bank in a rural setup – A success story [PDF]

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2022
Background: This article describes the experience of a rural human milk bank, with the problems faced in first 6 months including the coronavirus disease (COVID) crisis and interventions leading to success.
Bhavana Lakhkar, Sachin Damke, Revatdhamma Meshram   +2 more
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Characteristics and factors influencing the volume of breastmilk donated by women to the first human milk bank in Vietnam [PDF]

Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2023
BackgroundDonor human milk (DHM) is essential to the operation of human milk banks (HMB). This study examined characteristics and factors associated with higher volumes of DHM donation at the first HMB in Vietnam.MethodData from an online HMB monitoring ...
Hoang Thi Tran, Hoang Thi Tran, Tuan Thanh Nguyen, Oanh Thi Xuan Nguyen, Debbie Barnett, Gillian Weaver, Roger Mathisen   +6 more
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How much does a liter of donor human milk cost? Cost analysis of operating a human milk bank in Italy [PDF]

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2022
Background To date, 40 Human Milk Banks (HMB) have been established in Italy; however, recent cost analysis data for operating an HMB in Italy are not available in the literature. Methods This study was a cross-sectional study performed at “Bambino Gesù”
Guglielmo Salvatori, Domenico Umberto De Rose, Maria Clemente, Cristina Gentili, Giovanni Paride Verardi, Patrizia Amadio, Maria Paola Reposi, Pietro Bagolan, Andrea Dotta   +8 more
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Growth of Very Preterm Infants in a Low-Resourced Rural Setting after Affiliation with a Human Milk Bank. [PDF]

Children (Basel), 2022
The extrauterine growth restriction (EUGR) of very preterm infants has been associated with long-term complications and neurodevelopmental problems. EUGR has been reported at higher rates in low resource settings.
Chen CH, Chiu HY, Lee SC, Chang HY, Chang JH, Chen YJ, Kang L, Shen SP, Lin YC.   +8 more
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Views on wet nursing and expressing breastmilk for sharing and human milk bank donation among mothers in two parenting social media communities in Vietnam. [PDF]

Matern Child Nutr
Nutrition in early life plays a key role in shaping an infant's future health. There is limited understanding of the perspectives of Vietnamese mothers with children under 24 months of age regarding breastmilk expression, donation and use.
Nguyen TT, Huynh NL, Becker G, Tran HT, Cashin J, Mathisen R.   +5 more
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Operation Status of the Mutual Aid Human Milk Bank for Preterm Infants and Data Analysis [PDF]

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2023
Hua Wang,1 Xiao-Li Hu,2 Qiu-Fang Li,3 Jie Zhou,1 Ming-Yuan Wu1 1Department of NICU, Women’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310006, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Obstetrics, Women’s Hospital, Zhejiang University ...
Wang H, Hu XL, Li QF, Zhou J, Wu MY
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Human milk banks in the response to COVID-19: a statement of the regional human milk bank network for Southeast Asia and beyond [PDF]

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2021
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on infant feeding in the context of COVID-19 uphold standing recommendations for breastfeeding, non-separation, and skin-to-skin contact, including the use of donor human milk when mother’s ...
Estrella Olonan-Jusi, Paul G. Zambrano, Vu H. Duong, Nguyen T. T. Anh, Nant S. S. Aye, Mei Chien Chua, Hikmah Kurniasari, Zaw Win Moe, Sopapan Ngerncham, Nguyen T. T. Phuong, Janice Datu-Sanguyo   +10 more
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Recommendations for the Establishment and Operation of Human Milk Banks in Europe: A Consensus Statement From the European Milk Bank Association (EMBA) [PDF]

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2019
Objectives: To develop recommendations from the European Milk Bank Association (EMBA) for the establishment and operation of human milk banks (HMB) in Europe.Method: A working group comprising members of the EMBA was convened in 2015 to develop Europe ...
Gillian Weaver, Enrico Bertino, Corinna Gebauer, Anne Grovslien, Radmila Mileusnic-Milenovic, Sertac Arslanoglu, Debbie Barnett, Clair-Yves Boquien, Rachel Buffin, Antoni Gaya, Guido E. Moro, Aleksandra Wesolowska, Aleksandra Wesolowska, Jean-Charles Picaud, Jean-Charles Picaud   +14 more
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