How Brazil built a world-leading network of low-cost breast milk banks
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Alex Wilkins
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Brazil has developed one of the world's most effective and accessible breast milk bank systems, redesigned from the ground up in the 1980s by chemist João Aprígio Guerra de Almeida working with public health officials. Using low-cost, creative solutions like repurposing equipment from the food industry, Brazil created a vast network that provides some of the cheapest and safest donated milk to hundreds of thousands of babies. The system has become a global model for affordable, life-saving infant nutrition support.
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· 3 pulledIf you are a new mother and unable to breastfeed, few places are better than Brazil when it comes to getting assistance.
João Aprígio Guerra de Almeida, a young chemist, worked with Brazilian public health officials to redesign the country's milk banks from the ground up, using cheap, creative solutions like repurposing hot water baths from the food industry
Brazil's milk bank system provides some of the world's cheapest and safest donated milk to hundreds of thousands of babies
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