At Medolac, we support the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals 3, 4 and 5, which seek to empower women and improve health outcomes for both women and children.  Despite concerted worldwide efforts, in 2012, 6.6 million children died before their 5th birthday and much work remains to be done, particularly with regard to premature infants in the developing world. 

In fact, a recent report published by the WHO, "Born Too Soon", indicates that, "global progress in child survival and health to 2015 and beyond cannot be achieved without addressing preterm birth." Greater access to human milk could play a vital role as it has been shown to increase survival in preterm infants.   Despite this fact, donor milk is often inaccessible, particularly in resource poor settings and the benefits of shelf-life stable supply of human donor milk like ours in these situations would be quite significant. 

Medolac has already met with several prominent global aid agencies to find ways to advance the availability of donor milk and adapted human milk in resource poor settings and is committed to working in partnership with governments, international agencies and NGOs to do our part in helping address the urgent need to improve health outcomes for infants globally.