Prolacta supports the international breast milk project

Pasteurized donor milk is on it way to help babies in South Africa. Within our network of milk banks, we are proud to support the International Breast Milk Project (IBMP).  Donor milk is given to infants in Africa suffering from HIV/AIDS, undernourishment, poverty, and disease.

Milk is only provided to babies who do not have access to his/her mother’s own milk, including babies who are abandoned or orphaned from HIV-positive mothers. Through the partnership with International Breast Milk Project, 25% of the donated milk through IBMP is tested, pasteurized and filled into appropriate containers for shipment to Africa. The remaining milk is used by Prolacta to make human milk-based nutritional products for premature infants hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units and in return Prolacta makes a financial contribution to IBMP.

Choose Your Donor Program!

Prolacta offers a network of milk banks to empower mothers to choose a milk bank with which she feels most comfortable or best meets her needs. Prolacta utilizes this diversity of milk banks to ensure a supply of milk for those infants who need it most.

About IBMP

International Breast Milk Project is the only organization in the world to provide large provisions of donor breast milk to infants suffering from HIV/AIDS, undernourishment, poverty and disease in Africa.