• Protect yourself and the health of your family and friends. Get the safe and free hepatitis B vaccine!
• Just three shots and you are protected for life!
• Hepatitis B is a serious liver disease. Every week, hundreds in the U.S. are infected with hepatitis B.

What Is Hepatitis B?

The hepatitis B virus attacks your liver and can cause serious illness and even death! Some people carry the virus in their bodies for life and can later develop liver cancer and other liver damage.

How Do You Get Hepatitis B?

• From mother to child at birth.
• Contact with a person's blood.
• Unsafe sex.
• Living with someone who is infected with hepatitis B.
• Sharing personal items, such as toothbrushes and razors.
• Sharing unclean needles for body piercing, drug use, tattooing, or acupuncture.
• Sharing gum or food with someone who has open mouth sores.
• You cannot get hepatitis B from coughs, sneezes, or holding hands.

So What Should I Do?

To find out if you have Hepatitis B…GET SCREENED!!

To protect yourself from Hepatitis B…GET VACCINATED!!

Ask your doctor, school nurse, or community health center about the hepatitis B vaccine.

We offer screenings and vaccinations for hepatitis B to everyone for FREE at the following locations:

Sharewood Clinic in Malden:
Centre United Methodist Church
7 Washington Street, 2nd Floor
Malden, MA 02148
6:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. every Tuesday

South Cove Community Health Center:
885 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111
9 a.m. - 1 p.m., every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month

FACT: There is no cure for Hepatitis B. BUT it is easily preventable with a safe and effective vaccine.

FACT: In the U.S., Asians are 25 times more likely than the general population to get infected with hepatitis B.

FACT: Hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than AIDS.

FACT: 250,000 people in the U.S. get hepatitis B each year. Most of them are teens and young adults.

Which One Has Hepatitis B?

Answer: BOTH

Both may have a hepatitis B infection. Some infected people don't know they have the virus and never feel sick (they are carriers). They can still infect others and develop severe liver disease later on.