There was a time when blood banking was justifiably in trouble too
because of HIV in the blood supply. That problem was taken seriously
and resolved. Transmission of HIV through breastmilk is more tenuous
and more easily resolvable, but we still only have 6 milk banks in the
US and Canada.
How to put this aspect of the issue on the policy agenda?? (as if it is
possible to untangle this aspect from all the other issues here.)

Naomi Bar-Yam

On Mar 19, 2004, at 6:33 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Donor milk banking may never become what we want it to become.  I
> think we
> all dream about the milk bank in every major hospital, as accessible
> as a blood
> bank.
> Donor milk banks are often tied to human milk research. Survival of
> milk
> banking has been difficult since hiv/aids.
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