HMBASA
The Human Milk Banking Association of South Africa (HMBASA) is a non-profit organization
that co-ordinates and provides guidance for human milk banking centres throughout
South Africa. HMBASA seeks to reduce sickness and death and promote the well-being
of South African infants by reducing mortality and morbidity in critically ill or
premature infants, by providing human milk when direct breastfeeding is not possible
and by providing human milk to babies orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
Mission and Objectives
Co-ordinate a national network of centres around South Africa, which collect and
process human milk...
History
Throughout history women have supplied babies with milk when their own mothers were unable to do so...
FAQs
Milk banking questions...
Latest News
10 Nov 13: Study finds that breast milk sold on the Internet often contaminated.
21 Mar 13: FoneAstra
1. Milk Pasteurization Monitor: Building Capacity of Small-
2. University of Washington Video explaining how FoneAstra works.
Previous News
History of latest news items...
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