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The first 'International Expert Consultation on the Donation and Use of Human Milk (Human Milk Banking)', co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and organized by the IBME has taken place in Zurich on July 8 to 9, 2019.
Experts from around the world in fields related to human milk and tissue banking, nutrition, maternal and child health as well regulators and patient advocates met over two days at the Kameha Grand Hotel to discuss the current state of human milk banking across the globe, knowledge gaps, challenges in the field, the need for global guidance and recommendations for steps that could be taken at the international level.
The IBME was represented by Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno, Dr. Mirriam Tyebally Fang and Dr. Valerie Lucyx.
For more information please see:
Human milk banks: a need for further evidence and guidance
Just published as a Special Issue in Maternal & Child Nutrition, the package includes five publications covering the critical aspects of human milk banking. There is an editorial, an article summarizing the expert consultation meeting and three articles providing extensive detail and new evidence-based guidance.
Access each publication in the Special Issue (Expert overview of critical focus areas towards the development of global human milk bank standards) from the links below:
Editorial: ‘Nonprofit human milk banking: On a challenging path to global equity’
Meeting report summary: ‘International expert meeting on the donation and use of human milk: Brief report’
Article: ‘Review of current best practices for human milk banking’
Article: ‘The global status of human milk banking’
Article: ‘A comparative review of human milk banking and national tissue banking programs’
