Hepatitis B vaccination is the most important and effective preventive measure. Furthermore, to prevent hepatitis D, attention must be paid to reducing risk factors.
Behavioral risk factors
- Drug use (intravenous, ie, through the vein).
- Sexual transmission
- Promiscuity (sexual contact with relatively frequently changing different partners or with parallel multiple partners).
- Prostitution
- Men who have sex with men (MSM).
- Sexual contacts in the vacation country
- Unprotected coitus
Medication
- Blood products
Other risk factors
- Vertical infection – pathogen transmission from a host (here: the mother) to its offspring (here: the child):
- Transmission of infection during birth from mother to child (perinatal).
- Iatrogenic transmission
