• Those who have hemophilia or receive repeated infusions of blood or blood products
• Those who inject drugs or share drug snorting, smoking, or injecting equipment
• Males who have sex with other males
• Those with HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection, or chronic liver disease
• Those who have had a bone marrow or stem cell transplant
• Those who will have or have had a liver transplant
• Inmates of a provincial correctional facility
• Close contacts of a person with hepatitis A infection. These include people living in the same house, close friends, children in the same daycare, people who share drugs and sexual partners
• Those who have eaten food prepared by a food handler with hepatitis A infection.

The vaccine is also recommended, but not free of charge, for people likely to come in contact with or spread the hepatitis A virus.

For more information about the vaccine, who should get it, the benefits and possible reactions, visit the hepatitis A vaccine HealthLink BC file.