"Routine Hepatitis B Vaccination in a Clinic for Sexually Transmitted Diseases."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of Public Health, "Patients were assigned to one of two vaccine schedules to assess the feasibility of vaccinating asexually transmitted disease clinic population against hepatitis B virus. Of 1386 patients entering an inner-city clinic between June and July 1990, 611 (44%) accepted a first dose of vaccine. Twenty-one percent of all susceptible patients received-at least two doses of vaccine. Annualizing these findings shows that an ongoing program could prevent 636 hepatitis B virus infections per year. Although a significant proportion of sexually transmitted disease clinic patients can be successfully...

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