Antenatal Dexamethasone for Early Preterm Birth in Low-Resource Countries

, Olufemi T Oladapo¹, Joshua P Vogel¹+119

• ¹The affiliations of the members of the writing committee are as follows: World Health Organization, Geneva (O.T.O., J.P.V., G.P., M.-H.N., F.A., A.M.G., R.B., S.P.N.R., A.D.C., S.G.); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore (A.H.B., R.K.); Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (M.S., S.B. Chowdhury), Projahnmo Research Foundation (S. Ahmed, N.B., A.D.R., M.A. Shahed, I.A.J.), Institute of Child and Mother Health (F.Y., M.M.R.), Center for Woman and Child Health (A.A., S.K.), and Enam Medical College and Hospital (G.A., S. Akter), Dhaka, and Sylhet Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani Medical College Hospital (N. Akhter, P.R.D.), Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College Hospital (M.A. Sabur, M.T.A.), and Sylhet Women's Medical College Hospital (S.F.C., M.A.M.), Sylhet - both in Bangladesh; KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi (S.S.G., S.M.D., M.C.M., Y.V.P., M.S.S., S.S.V., V.R.H.), Shri B.M. Patil Medical College, Vijayapura (S.R.B., S.S. Mathapati, P.G.P., M.M.P., M.R.G., H.R.B.), S. Nijalingappa Medical College, Bagalkot (A.A.M., G.M.K., S.B. Chikkamath, B.C.Y., R.R.P.), Srirama Chandra Bhanja Medical College, Cuttack (S.S. Misra, L.D., S.N., R.B.N., B.S.), and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi (H.K.C.) - all in India; University of Nairobi (Z.Q., F.W., A. Osoti, G.G., A.L.) and Kenyatta National Hospital (J.K.), Nairobi, Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa (H.M., N. Aliyan), Nakuru Level 5 Hospital, Nakuru (A.B., E.K.), Kiambu Level 5 Hospital, Kiambu (M.M., L.T.), and Thika Level 5 Hospital, Thika (N.J.G., B.L.) - all in Kenya; the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, and University College Hospital, Ibadan (A.I.A., A.G.F., O.A.A., A.M.A., O.O.I.), Kubwa General Hospital, Kubwa (W.S., I.K.E.), Nyanya General Hospital, Nyanya (H.A.I., C.V.O.), State Specialist Hospital (T.A.I., O.A. Olubosede, O.B.) and Mother and Child Hospital (A.L.A., O.O.O., R.O.O., I.P.E.), Akure, Lagos Island Maternity Hospital (O.M.O., O.A. Olutekunbi), and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (A.O. Fabamwo, E.A.D., J.O.A.), Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (E.A.A., O.K., H.C.A., I.O.A., A.O. Fehintola, B.P.K.), University of Abuja, Abuja (A.D.I., E.K.O.), Sacred Heart Hospital, Abeokuta (O. Abiodun, O.F.D.), Mother and Child Hospital, Ondo (F.B.A., L.O.), University of Ilorin, Ilorin (O. Adesiyun, H.O.R.), and University of Benin, Benin City (A.B.A.A., I.O.) - all in Nigeria; Aga Khan University, Karachi (S. Ariff, S.B.S., L.S.), Sheikh Zayed Medical College and Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan (S.Z., S.O.), and Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad (R.S., S.S.) - all in Pakistan; Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales, Rosario, Argentina (D.G., H.G., G.C.); Statistika Consultoria, Campinas, Brazil (J.C.); University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom (J.N.); College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre (E.M.); American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon (K.Y.); and the Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda (K.M.).