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

• Main Authors: Natalie Shenker (Author), Marta Staff (Author), Amy Vickers (Author), Joao Aprigio (Author), Satish Tiwari (Author), Sushma Nangia (Author), Ruchika Chugh Sachdeva (Author), Vanessa Clifford (Author), Anna Coutsoudis (Author), Penny Reimers (Author), Kiersten Israel‐Ballard (Author), Kimberly Mansen (Author), Radmila Mileusnic‐Milenovic (Author), Aleksandra Wesolowska (Author), Johannes B. van Goudoever (Author), Mohammadbagher Hosseini (Author), Daniel Klotz (Author), Anne Hagen Grøvslien (Author), Gillian Weaver (Author), Virtual Collaborative Network of Milk Banks and Associations (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract 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 babies, reducing the risk of complicatio...