13 Categories of Persons who Should Take Hepatitis B Vaccine

Today is the World Hepatitis Day.

The hepatitis B vaccine is typically given as three or four injections over six months. You can’t get hepatitis B from the vaccine.

The hepatitis B vaccine is recommended for:

• Newborns

• Children and adolescents not vaccinated at birth

• Those who work or live in a centre for people who are developmentally disabled

• People who live with someone who has hepatitis B

• Health care workers, emergency workers and other people who come into contact with blood

• Anyone who has a sexually transmitted infection, including HIV

• Men who have sex with men

• People who have multiple sexual partners

• Sexual partners of someone who has hepatitis B

• People who inject illegal drugs or share needles and syringes

• People with chronic liver disease

• People with end-stage kidney disease

• Travellers planning to go to an area of the world with a high hepatitis B infection rate.

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