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In summary: The human milk bank at Pumwani Maternity Hospital opened in 2019 and is still the only one in the country. Sites for a second had been assessed and Mbagathi chosen before the funding was withdrawn. This year’s World Breastfeeding Week theme asks countries to strengthen what works. Kenya’s first human milk bank opened…

Summary: Paid breastfeeding and paid milk are old trades, and in almost every version of them the milk moved from poor women to wealthier infants. That history is the reason regulated milk banks today take donations rather than purchases. Wet nursing is the oldest form. A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeds a child…