| Appendix: Groups for whom hepatitis B vaccination* is recommended[4] |
- Workers (including students) at occupational risk of exposure to blood and blood products
- Residents and staff of institutions for people with developmental disabilities
- Sexually active homosexual or bisexual men
- Heterosexual men and women with multiple sexual partners or a recent history of a sexually transmitted disease
- Users of injection drugs
- People with hemophilia and others who receive repeated infusions of blood or blood products
- Patients on hemodialysis
- Residents of long-term correctional facilities
- Household and sexual contacts of hepatitis B carriers
- Members of populations or communities with a high prevalence of hepatitis B
- Children less than 7 years of age whose families have immigrated from areas with a high prevalence of hepatitis B and who may be exposed to hepatitis B carriers through their extended family
- Travellers to areas where hepatitis B is endemic who are staying for longer than 6 months or will likely have sexual contact with or come into contact with blood from local residents
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| *For vaccine doses and schedules see the Canadian Immunization Guide[4] |
