Wet Nursing Screening Tool

This screening tool accompanies the UNICEF (2025) Technical and Operational Guidance on Supporting Access to Breastmilk Through Wet Nursing in Emergencies.

The aim of the tool is to support frontline professionals in the screening of a prospective wet nurse. This usually requires a screening in which medical history, including infectious disease screening, care duties, and social practices are discussed between the prospective wet nurse and the primary caregiver of the infant receiving the human milk. This screening can be supported between families or facilitated by a health or nutrition professional using a contextualised screening tool such as this. A woman who is a prospective wet nurse may, at any time, decline to continue the screening, in part or entirely. A primary infant caregiver may also opt out of the screening at any time.

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