South Africa: Five Things You Didn't Know About South Africa's Breast Milk Banks

15 September 2017

Deposits in these banks help SA's tiniest preemies but are they just for babies?

"Breast is best" has become a mantra ever since the World Health Organisation recommended that mothers feed babies nothing but breast milk - not even water - for the first six months of life.

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