ArticleNutrients2021
Trends and Dynamics in the First Four Years of Operation of the First Human Milk Bank in Vietnam.
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- CanDo (Canadian Donor Milk) randomised controlled trial: pasteurised human donor milk supplementation in the well-baby unit - protocol.BMJ open · 2026Trial
- Vietnam biobanking feasibility study: An overview of biobanking landscape, infrastructure, and capacity.AIMS public health · 2026Article
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- Application of a locally developed open-access digital monitoring system for the human milk bank network in Vietnam.International breastfeeding journal · 2025Article
- Human milk bank services and Islamic milk kinship: pathways and processes for ensuring respect for religious law and tradition in the provision of donor human milk for small vulnerable newborns.International breastfeeding journal · 2025Article
- Views on wet nursing and expressing breastmilk for sharing and human milk bank donation among mothers in two parenting social media communities in Vietnam.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Factors Associated with the Prolonged Use of Donor Human Milk at the Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children in Vietnam.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Formal and informal human milk donation in New Zealand: a mixed-method national survey.International breastfeeding journal · 2024Article
- Donor and newborn profiles and their influence on donation volume and duration: a cross-sectional study in a Spanish human milk bank.International breastfeeding journal · 2024Article
- Monitoring the Use of Human Milk, the Ideal Food for Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants-A Narrative Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Case Report: I feel like a mother to other babies: experiences and perspectives on bereavement and breastmilk donation from Vietnam.Frontiers in global women's health · 2023Article
- Characteristics and factors influencing the volume of breastmilk donated by women to the first human milk bank in Vietnam.Frontiers in global women's health · 2023Article
- Operation Status of the Mutual Aid Human Milk Bank for Preterm Infants and Data Analysis.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2023Article
- A descriptive analysis of human milk dispensed by the Leipzig Donor Human Milk Bank for neonates between 2012 and 2019.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Sequential interventions to maintain the safety and service provisions of human milk banking in India: keeping up with the call to action in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.International breastfeeding journal · 2022Article
- Implementation and Effectiveness of Policies Adopted to Enable Breastfeeding in the Philippines Are Limited by Structural and Individual Barriers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Eight-year operation status and data analysis of the first human milk bank in East China.International breastfeeding journal · 2022Article
- Implementation of two policies to extend maternity leave and further restrict marketing of breast milk substitutes in Vietnam: a qualitative study.Health policy and planning · 2022Article
- Impact of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic on Neonatal Nutrition: Focus on Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Current tropical medicine reports · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundSince 1979, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have recommended the use of pasteurized human milk from a human milk bank (HMB) to feed low birthweight (LBW) and preterm newborns as the 'first alternative' when mothers are unable to provide their own milk. However, they have not issued any guidelines for the safe establishment and operation of an HMB. This gap contributes to the demand for gathering experiences from HMB networks, especially those from lower-middle income countries. To fill this knowledge gap, this study examines the characteristics of donors, donation, pasteurization, and recipients during the first four years of operation in the first HMB in Vietnam.
methodsData about the donors, donation, pasteurization, and recipients were extracted from the web-based electronic monitoring system of the HMB from 1 February 2017 to 31 January 2021.
resultsIn the first four years of operation there were 433 donors who donated 7642 L of milk (66% from the community) with an increased trend in the amount of donated milk, donation duration, and average amount of milk donated by a donor. Approximately 98% of the donated milk was pasteurized, and 82% passed both pre- and post-pasteurization tests. Although the pass rate tended to increase with time, a few dips occurred. Of 16,235 newborns who received pasteurized donor milk, two thirds were in the postnatal wards. The main reason for the prescription of pasteurized donor milk was insufficient mothers' own milk in the first few days after birth. There was a decreased trend in the amount and duration of using pasteurized donor milk in both postnatal wards and the neonatal unit.
conclusionsThe HMB has operated efficiently in the previous four years, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, to serve vulnerable newborns. Ongoing evidence-based adjustments helped to improve the operation to recruit suitable donors, to increase the access to and quality of raw donor milk, to improve the pasteurization process, and to meet the need of more newborns.
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