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Young adults face new decisions and challenges nearly every day.
You may be considering college, looking for a job, deciding whether to marry or remain single, thinking about moving out on your own or remaining in your parents' home. As a person chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus, one of your challenges is to be responsible to yourself and to those around you. The two of us in our separate practices have counseled over one thousand teens with chronic hepatitis B virus infection. We believe the information you find in this article will provide you with the guidance you need. We want to be of help to you.