**7. Essential preterm prevention and care packages at the community level in low-income countries**

The essential neonatal care packages exist in literature but there is a gap between this wealth of knowledge and practice. There is need to adapt the interventions and

care packages tested in randomized trials to local settings especially when strongly held beliefs and cultural barriers exist against the scientific mechanisms of the interventions. The extend of the adaptation may depend on survival benefit and affordability of the intervention.
