We are pleased to announce that our next international conference will take place on the 5th and 6th October at the Olissippo Oriente Hotel in Lisbon Portgal.  The annual EMBA meeting for members will take place the day before on the 4th October. Click here for further information.

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If you have not yet renewed your membership for 2012 please do so without delay. You will then be provided with the password to access the Members Only Section. Contact Gillian.weaver@yahoo.com if you require further information. Members will receive a reduction in the EMBA conference registration fee for Lisbon 2012.
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Following the AGM held in Milan in November 2011, EMBA has released a statement on the sharing of breastmilk.

Congratulations to all involved in bringing about the eventual birth of our European Milk Banking Baby.  The EMBA is now a legally inaugurated European Association with a President (Professor Guido Moro) a Vice President (Gillian Weaver), a secretary (Mrs Kerri Frischknecht) and a Treasurer (Assoc Professor Sertac Arslanoglu).  It has its seat in Milan, Italy and welcomes membership from milk banks, milk bank associations and individuals who support the aims of the Association. For further details contact Gillian Weaver.

Human milk banks have existed in Europe since the establishment of the first bank in Vienna, Austria in 1909. The 1930’s and 1940’s saw the introduction of milk banks on a wider scale throughout Europe and since that time the numbers have fluctuated according to the popularity of breastfeeding, the availability of formula milk, financial influences and as a result of the emergence of HIV infection. There are no published figures providing the numbers of milk banks in all European countries, the extent of milk banking and the use of donor milk.

The European Milk Banking Association is a non profit organisation which has been established to promote milk banking in Europe and to encourage international co-operation between the human milk banks of the countries of Europe. The EMBA will promote and support research to improve our knowledge of donor breastmilk and human milk banking. For further information see the EMBA Constitution. The officers and Board of Directors have been elected to further the aims of the Association.

Please visit our partners, UENPS (Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies) www.uenps.com