These factors include unprotected sex, sexual contact with multiple partners, a history of STIs, abusing alcohol or using recreational drugs, injecting drugs and being an adolescent female. Another way to transmit an STI is mother to infant at birth or during breast feeding (Mayo, "Risk"). ... These unstable cells make the adolescent female cervix more vulnerable to certain sexually transmitted organisms" (Mayo, "Risk"). ... HPV can be prevented; there is a vaccine that both males and females can receive. It has been more recommended for females to get the vaccine beca...

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