ReviewMaternal & child nutrition2024
The global status of human milk banking.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Human milk banking services: an umbrella review.Public health nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Policies and guidelines supporting the sustainability of human milk donation to milk banks in Switzerland: a document analysis.International journal for equity in health · 2025Pooled it
- In-hospital peer-supported human milk bank management model and its association with human milk feeding proportions and clinical outcomes in extremely preterm infants: a recipient-to-voluntary-donor approach.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Article
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- Informal Human Milk Sharing: The Experiences and Practices of Informal Human Milk Sharing in Ireland.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Exploring the Experience of Human Milk Use in Nigeria Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A Scoping Review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Health-oriented leadership and health equity: the role of NGO support in advancing public health policy and nutritional literacy.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Current and future use of donor human milk in hospitals: data from polish human milk banks.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Article
- Before and after Group Standards: a longitudinal study on operational quality, cost-effectiveness, and health equity promotion in Southwest China's first human milk bank.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Article
- Facilitators, barriers, and factors determining the willingness to donate human milk among postpartum mothers in a tertiary women's hospital in Nepal: a cross-sectional study.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Article
- Microbiological safety and immunoglobulin A retention in bottle-agitated Holder pasteurization of human milk.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Article
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- Loss aversion and the limits of breastfeeding promotion: a behavioral policy perspective.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Article
- A Rapid Colorimetric Method for Determining Calcium, Inorganic Phosphorus, and Zinc in Human Milk Using Clinical Laboratory Reagents.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2026Article
- Human Milk Banks in Iran: A Model for Integrating Global Best Practices within a Cultural and Religious Context.Archives of Iranian medicine · 2026Article
- Exploring barriers to human milk banking acceptability among nursing mothers in Iran using social cognitive perspectives.International breastfeeding journal · 2025Article
- Application of a locally developed open-access digital monitoring system for the human milk bank network in Vietnam.International breastfeeding journal · 2025Article
- Bridging the Milk Gap: Integrating a Human Milk Bank-Blood Bank Model to Reinforce Lactation Support and Neonatal Care.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Impact of Enteral Nutrition on Clinical Outcomes in Very Low Birth Weight Infants in the NICU: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Human milk banking services: An umbrella review protocol.HRB open research · 2025Article
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Abstract
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.
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