| Author | Shenker, Natalie | |
| Author | Staff, Marta | |
| Author | Vickers, Amy | |
| Author | Almeida, João Aprigio Guerra de | |
| Author | Tiwari, Satish | |
| Author | Nangia, Sushma | |
| Author | Sachdeva, Ruchika Chugh | |
| Author | Clifford, Vanessa | |
| Author | Coutsoudis, Anna | |
| Author | Reimers, Penny | |
| Author | Israel-Ballard, Kiersten | |
| Author | Mansen, Kimberly | |
| Author | Mileusnic-Milenovic, Radmila | |
| Author | Wesolowska, Aleksandra | |
| Author | Goudoever, Johannes B. van | |
| Author | Hosseini, Mohammadbagher | |
| Author | Klotz, Daniel | |
| Author | Grøvslien, Anne Hagen | |
| Author | Weaver, Gillian | |
| Author | Virtual Collaborative Network of Milk Banks and Associations | |
| Access date | 2021-02-24T18:46:14Z | |
| Available date | 2021-02-24T18:46:14Z | |
| Document date | 2020 | |
| Citation | SHENKER, Natalie et al. Maintaining human milk bank services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: a global response. Maternal & Child Nutrition, p. 1-13, 4 Dec. 2020. | en_US |
| ISSN | 1740-8695 | |
| URI | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/46156 | |
| Description | All authors work in human milk banks. The salary of the lead author is paid by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship at Imperial College London, and she has no financial conflict of interest related to the milk bank in which she works. | en_US |
| Sponsorship | MR/S017437/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom | en_US |
| Language | eng | en_US |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell | en_US |
| Rights | open access | |
| Title | Maintaining human milk bank services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: a global response | en_US |
| Type | Article | en_US |
| DOI | 10.1111/mcn.13131 | |
| 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 complications and supporting maternal breastfeeding where used alongside optimal lactation support. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a range of challenges to HMBs worldwide. This study aimed to understand the impacts of the pandemic on HMB services and develop initial guidance regarding risk limitation. A Virtual Collaborative Network (VCN) comprising over 80 HMB leaders from 36 countries was formed in March 2020 and included academics and nongovernmental organisations. Individual milk banks, national networks and regional associations submitted data regarding the number of HMBs, volume of DHM produced and number of recipients in each global region. Estimates were calculated in the context of missing or incomplete data. Through open-ended questioning, the experiences of milk banks from each country in the first 2 months of the pandemic were collected and major themes identified. According to data collected from 446 individual HMBs, more than 800,000 infants receive DHM worldwide each year. Seven pandemic-related specific vulnerabilities to service provision were identified, including sufficient donors, prescreening disruption, DHM availability, logistics, communication, safe handling and contingency planning, which were highly context-dependent. The VCN now plans a formal consensus approach to the optimal response of HMBs to new pathogens using crowdsourced data, enabling the benchmarking of future strategies to support DHM access and neonatal health in future emergencies. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Imperial College London. Department of Surgery and Cancer. London, UK. / Rothamsted Institute. Human Milk Foundation. Hertfordshire, UK. | en_US |
| Affilliation | University of Exeter Business School. The Centre for Simulation, Analytics and Modelling (CSAM). Exeter, UK. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Human Milk Bank Association of North America. Mothers' Milk Bank of North Texas. Fort Worth, Texas, USA. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira. Banco de Leite Humano. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Dr Punjabrao Deshmukh Memorial Medical College. Human Milk Banking Association of India. Amravati, India. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Lady Hardinge Medical College & Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital. National Human Milk Bank, Department of Neonatology. New Delhi, India. / Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital. Vatsalya Maatri Amrit Kosh - the National Comprehensive Lactation Management Centre, Department of Neonatology. New Delhi, India. | en_US |
| Affilliation | PATH India. Maternal Newborn Child Health and Nutrition. New Delhi, India. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Milk. West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Human Milk Banking Association of South Africa. South Africa / University of KwaZulu-Natal. School of Clinical Medicine. Durban, South Africa. | en_US |
| Affilliation | HMBASA. iThembu Lethu Community Milk Bank. Rossburgh, South Africa. | en_US |
| Affilliation | HMBASA. iThembu Lethu Community Milk Bank. Rossburgh, South Africa. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Maternal, Newborn. Child Health and Nutrition, PATH. Seattle, Washington, USA. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Institute of Neonatology. First Serbian Human Milk Bank. Belgrade, Serbia. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Medical University of Warsaw. Regional Human Milk Bank in Holy Family Hospital. Laboratory of Human Milk and Lactation Research. Department of Medical Biology. Warsaw, Poland. | en_US |
| Affilliation | University of Amsterdam. Emma Children's Hospital. Dutch National Human Milk Bank, Amsterdam UMC. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Neonatal and Perinatal Department. Alzahra Teaching Hospital. Department of Neonatology. Tabriz, Iran / Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Full Professor of Neonatology, Pediatric Health Research Center. Tabriz, Iran. | en_US |
| Affilliation | University of Freiburg. Faculty of Medicine. Center for Pediatrics. Division of Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine. Medical Center. Freiburg, Germany. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Oslo University Hospital. Milk Bank Manager. Norwegian Accredited Breastfeeding Consultant. Multi-cultural Healthcare Consultant. Department of Pediatrics. Oslo, Norway. | en_US |
| Affilliation | Rothamsted Institute. Human Milk Foundation. Hertfordshire, UK. | en_US |
| Subject | COVID-19 | en_US |
| Subject | Breastfeeding | en_US |
| Subject | Donor human milk | en_US |
| Subject | Infant feeding | en_US |
| Subject | Milk bank | en_US |
| Subject | Nutrition | en_US |
| Subject | Pandemic | en_US |
| Subject | Prematurity | en_US |
| xmlui.metadata.dc.subject.ods | 02 Fome zero e agricultura sustentável | |
