Penelope is an 18 year old girl from a remote region of northern Zambia. She lost both of her parents to AIDS and had to drop out of school at age 13 to support herself and her siblings in the wake of her parents’ deaths. She, like 83 percent of girls in sub-Saharan Africa are not in secondary school. Like Penelope, 11.3 Million children in in sub-Saharan Africa are orphans due to HIV/AIDS. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, young women between the ages of 15-24 are twice as likely to be living with HIV/AIDS as young men. But if young women are educated, they are three times less likely to...