This is a notifiable infection. Medical practitioners must complete the appropriate notification form for all patients diagnosed with a notifiable STI/HIV, as soon as possible after confirmed diagnosis.
Communicable Disease Control Directorate (CDCD) funds hepatitis A and/or B vaccines for the following groups of people who are at increased risk of acquiring these infections by sexual transmission and/or injecting drug use:
• men who have sex with men
• people who inject drugs
• sex industry workers
• people living with HIV, chronic hepatitis B or C infection or chronic liver disease
• people newly notified with hepatitis C (newly acquired or chronic/unspecified) or hepatitis B (newly acquired or chronic/unspecified).
The Department of Justice funds hepatitis A and B vaccines for people in corrective facilities; this group is not eligible for WA Department of Health funded vaccines. People in corrective facilities are recommended to receive vaccination due to their increased risk of hepatitis B infection.
See Guidelines for the Provision of Hepatitis A and B Vaccine to Adults in Western Australia at Risk of Acquiring these Infections by Sexual Transmission and Injecting Drug Use (PDF 248KB).
Real time WA and national (external site) notification data.
For specialist advice, see Contacts for specialist advice on STIs, hepatitis and HIV
Patient information: Hepatitis A (HealthyWA)