GENERIC NAME: hepatitis A vaccine. DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Hepatitis A vaccine (Havrix, Vaqta) is used to prevent hepatitis A, a type of liver disease that is caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV).epatitis A vaccine was approved in 2005. PRESCRIBED FOR: Hepatitis A vaccine is used to prevent hepatitis A. Hepatitis A vaccine can be used in persons 1 year of age and older. Although anyone can be infected with hepatitis A, certain people are at high risk and should be routinely vaccinated.
A deficiency is generally a lack of something. It may also refer to: 1  A deficient number, in mathematics, a number n for which Ï (n n. 2  Angular deficiency, in geometry, the difference between a sum of angles and the corresponding sum in a Euclidean plane.
any of a group of substances that are essential, in small quantities, for the normal functioning of metabolism in the body. They cannot usually be synthesized in the body but they occur naturally in certain foods: insufficient supply of any particular vitamin results in a deficiency disease.