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Hepatitis B: screening care in pregnancy and protecting your baby

Information on hepatitis B infection, screening and care in pregnancy and the vaccine which protects babies born to women with hepatitis B.

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Protecting your baby against hepatitis B

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Hepatitis B: a guide to your care in pregnancy and after your baby is born leaflet

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Details

These leaflets are aimed at parents of babies who are at risk from hepatitis B virus infection through perinatal transmission.

The Protecting your baby against hepatitis B immunisation leaflet explains the course of vaccinations for babies born to women with hepatitis B to help protect babies from developing hepatitis B infection. This leaflet can be ordered using product code HEPB25PYB.

The Guide to your care in pregnancy and after your baby is born screening leaflet is for use from 1 July 2025. It explains the hepatitis B screening and care offered to women with hepatitis B in pregnancy. This leaflet can be ordered using the product code HEPB25EN.

Translations and accessible versions will be available in due course.

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Updates to this page

Published 24 August 2018
Last updated 28 July 2025 show all updates
  1. The HTML version of the Protecting your baby against hepatitis B leaflet has been updated to reflect the changes in the PDF version.

  2. Clarified age range

  3. Leaflets have been updated in accordance with the routine childhood vaccination schedule changes from 1 July 2025.

  4. Added 'a guide to your care in pregnancy and after your baby is born' guide.

  5. Added 5 new translated download-only versions of the leaflet.

  6. First published.

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