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Vaccine acceptance is essential to complete the vaccination program and reach community-based immunity. On the other hand, vaccine hesitancy is an important limiting factor, particularly among healthcare workers and mainly in lower-income nations. The objective of this study is to evaluate the level of vaccination among healthcare workers. A questionnaire was conducted in which healthcare workers were involved. In this work 528 healthcare workers were involved (7 physicians, 57 dentists, 22 pharmacists, 5 nurses and 9 other jobs). Our findings showed that 90% of participants were infected before vaccination while 10% had no history of infection before vaccination. While 93 % of participants received vaccine only 7% did not. Regarding the number of jabs, 7% of participants received one jab, 79% received two jabs and 14% received three jabs. The incidence of COVID-19 infection was dramatically lower among vaccinated health workers which was accounting for 38% with protection against infection (62% of participants). About 28% of participants who rejected vaccination they did so because they have chronic diseases, 15% rejected vaccination because they are pregnant women, 17% rejected vaccination because of its adverse effects while about 14% did not receive vaccine because of carelessness. Overall, our results show that the vaccination status among healthcare workers in Najaf is satisfying.Copyright © 2023, Colegio de Farmaceuticos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. All rights reserved.
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Objectives: E-learning has jumped from an adjuvant tool to a crucial educational protocol during COVID-19 pandemic. This has a particular value for Pharmacy Students as the Pharmacy Education necessitates unique requirements. Consequently, this mixture of requirements needs to be fully understood by educators to offer a better education for their students. Accordingly, the authors conducted this study herein in, to facilitate the understanding of E-learning correlated with Pharmacy Education in Iraqi Pharmacy Students' perspective. Methods: The study design was designated to questionnaire of 540 pharmacy students in three different Iraqi Universities. This involved two types of questions. The first with multiple choice questions and the second with agreement question. The statistics utilized were performed with GraphPad Prism version 8.4.3 (686). Results: The results were observed with the employment of D'Agostino-Pearson omnibus (K2) and the P value was recorded as 0.0106. Conclusion: The authors find that the opinion of the pharmacy students could highly affect the education outcome in according to their perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2020 The Author(s).