Girl Power

In the early years of college, I wrote a paper about the spread of AIDS and made a pretty bold declaration:

In order to stop the spread of the disease, we need to stop focusing on drugs, treatment, protection and abstinence. We need to start empowering young women.

The paper (I can’t find it anymore) probably had a bunch of statistics to support my claim — I’m fairly sure I got a good grade — but statistics aside, the importance of young women in development has been an issue near and dear to my heart for several years.