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

Autor: Mohammad Bagher Hosseini, Johannes B. van Goudoever, Marta Staff, Joao Aprigio, Penny Reimers, Vanessa Clifford, Kiersten Israel-Ballard, Ruchika Chugh Sachdeva, Gillian Weaver, Daniel Klotz, Amy Vickers, Satish Tiwari, Anne Grovslien, Aleksandra Wesołowska, Sushma Nangia, Radmila Mileusnic-Milenovic, Anna Coutsoudis, Natalie S. Shenker, Kimberly Mansen, Associations
Přispěvatelé: Medical Research Council (MRC)
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
breastfeeding
Collaborative network
Human milk bank
Breastfeeding
Pediatrics
0302 clinical medicine
RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS
Pandemic
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
donor human milk
Medicine
BREAST-MILK
030212 general & internal medicine
Nutritional diseases. Deficiency diseases
Nutrition and Dietetics
milk bank
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Benchmarking
DONOR HUMAN-MILK
Breast Feeding
nutrition
INACTIVATION
Female
Original Article
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
RC620-627
infant feeding
Virtual Collaborative Network of Milk Banks and Associations
Context (language use)
RJ1-570
03 medical and health sciences
COVID‐19
Environmental health
Humans
Pediatrics
Perinatology
and Child Health
Milk Banks
Pandemics
Contingency plan
030109 nutrition & dietetics
Science & Technology
Nutrition & Dietetics
STABILITY
Milk
Human
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
pandemic
prematurity
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
Infant
Newborn
COVID-19
Infant
Gynecology and obstetrics
Original Articles
Pediatrics
Perinatology and Child Health
RG1-991
1111 Nutrition and Dietetics
business
Zdroj: Maternal & Child Nutrition
Maternal and Child Nutrition, Vol 17, Iss 3, Pp n/a-n/a (2021)
ISSN: 1740-8709
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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