Prevalence and factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Zambia: a web-based cross-sectional study.

Introduction: vaccinations against COVID-19 have been instituted to contain the pandemic. However, information about the acceptability of COVID-19 vaccines in Zambia is lacking. Therefore, the study assessed the prevalence and factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among the general population in Zambia.

Method development and validation for simultaneous determination of ebastine and its active metabolite carebastine in human plasma by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry and its application to a clinical pharmacokinetic study in healthy Chinese volunteers.

A simple LC-tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) method to determine ebastine and carebastine (active metabolite) in human plasma was developed and validated. Analytes and internal standards were precipitated by protein precipitation and separated on Synergi Hydro-RP 80A column (4 μm, 50 mm × 2.0 mm; Phenomenex) by gradient elution with mobile phase A comprising 0.

Cost-effectiveness analysis of establishing a distance-education programme for health personnel in Swaziland.

There is a growing conviction among policy-makers that the availability of adequate numbers of well-trained and motivated human resources is a key determinant of health system' s capacity to achieve their health, responsiveness and fairness-improving goals. The objective of this study was to estimate the cost, effectiveness and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of various distance-education strategies for the health sector in Swaziland; and recommend the most cost-effective option. The distance-education strategies evaluated included: Mobile library services (MLS); micro-resources centers WITHOUT video conferencing in five health centers and four regional hospitals (MRC-VC); micro-resources centers WITH video conferencing in five health centers and four regional hospitals (MRC+VC); centralized resource center WITHOUT video conferencing (CRC-VC); centralized resource center WITH video conferencing (CRC+VC); and status quo (SQ).