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Hepatitis B - Management
Who should be screened for hepatitis B?
- Antenatal screening for hepatitis B is routinely offered to all pregnant women.
- Consider opportunistic screening of people at high risk of hepatitis B, particularly for those who:
- Are more likely to have been exposed to hepatitis B (such as immigrants from areas with a high prevalence, injecting drug users, and sex workers).
- Have been sexually assaulted.
- Have sustained a needlestick injury.
- Are HIV-positive.
- In people at high risk of hepatitis B, consider offering the first dose of hepatitis B vaccine and taking blood for serology testing at the same appointment.
- If serology tests later show immunity, do not give the remaining doses of vaccine.
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