All the European Milk Bank Association Board is witnessing with regret and sorrow the events that are affecting population of Ukraine in this moment...
EMBA Task Force : COVID-19 in the perinatal period.
The members of the Task Force will evaluate the present knowledge about how COVID-19 affects the last period of pregnancy, the type of delivery, the neonatal period, breastfeeding and human milk donation.
Welcome to the European Milk Bank Association (EMBA) website where you will find information from many of the 200+ milk banks operating in more than 20 countries throughout Europe as well as news from milk banks and about the use of donor human milk around the world. Whether you are a current member of EMBA, hoping to join our association or simply an interested visitor to the website we hope you find this site useful. If you wish to donate human milk, in the first instance please contact the named individual on the page for the country where you reside.
To find out more about the milk banks in a specific country, click on the relevant flag at the top of the page or on the ‘Click for full map’ button to the left of the flags and then on the country (not available for most smart phones).
Join passionate leaders Sven Wellmann and Miguel Sáenz de Pipaón in this webinar session to learn first-hand from their experiences about best practices for more human milk in the neonatal unit. The discussion panel will be moderated by EMBA president Prof. Sertac Arslanoglu, who will enrich the discussion with her own experience on a neonatal unit. Read more >>
Join experienced leaders Daniel Klotz and Sharron Bransburg-Zabary in this webinar session to learn from their experiences about best practices for milk banking in Germany and Israel. Read more >>
Join us to learn first-hand from expert speakers Prof. David Lembo (Italy) and EMBA president Prof. Sertac Arslanoglu (Turkey) about the latest updates in the field of virus transmission, protection, and human milk banking in Europe and their experiences about improving the quality of lactation care and human milk feeding in neonatal units in Europe. Read more >>
The last webinar within the series "Supporting mothers in proper nutrition of children in crisis" entitled “Human milk bank in emergency - donor milk as a bridge to mothers own milk” will take place online on Thursday, June 22 at 17:30 (Central European Time). The series is a part of the project implemented by the Human Milk Bank Foundation and partners on behalf of UNICEF. Read more >>