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This toolkit is comprised of 11 separate core documents and accompanying materials—including templates, standards, and tools—to guide critical steps for establishing human milk banking as an integrated component within breastfeeding support and neonatal care, with in-depth focus on readiness, quality assurance, operations, auditing, training, monitoring and evaluation, and communications. These tools are intended to be utilized as a cohesive package, with embedded links throughout to orient and guide users to relevant resources. The content was developed to be adaptable to local context requirements to maximize effectiveness and reach.To use the toolkit offline, please download the zip file, open the zip file, save the entire folder “PATH_HMB_Toolkit_Links” in a new folder on your computer, prior to opening and using the PDFs and attachments. This will ensure that all hyperlinks work to connect between resources. If you encounter any issues with this complete zip file format, please download and use the individual toolkit resources available on the resource toolkit homepage.

Audio recording of PATH’s launch of the “Strengthening Human Milk Banking: A Resource Toolkit for Establishing and Integrating Human Milk Bank Programs” during the Breastfeeding Innovations Team Webinar on February 28, 2019. This toolkit provides critical guidance on readiness, quality assurance, operations, auditing, training, monitoring and evaluation, and communications to facilitate the safe and quality provision of donor human milk to infants who need it around the world. These materials are freely accessible here: www.path.org/hmb-toolkit

The Diarrhea Innovations Group (DIG) is a global network of innovators committed to reducing child mortality and morbidity from enteric and diarrheal diseases through the advancement of appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic technologies and approaches. It is a voluntary association of academic, nonprofit, public, and private members. The group aims to accelerate progress by focusing on solutions with the greatest potential for positive health impact in countries that bear the highest disease burden.

Thousands of women are now taking charge of their reproductive health through self-injection of the contraceptive subcutaneous DMPA (DMPA-SC, brand name Sayana® Press). In this February 13, 2019 webinar, speakers presented evidence from five countries at different stages of DMPA-SC introduction and scale-up, from earliest (Ghana) to more advanced (Uganda). Speakers also shared insights on applying research findings to program design and delivery. This webinar was hosted by the DMPA-SC Access Collaborative Learning and Action Network.For more information, visit www.path.org/dmpa-sc, sign up for our newsletter, or email FPoptions@path.org.

Purpose: To complement existing community health worker materials that are missing content on nutrition, child development, and factors that promote or hinder good development.Used by community health workers.Approved by the Provincial Health Directorate, Nampula, Mozambique.