article_snippet: The truth is, us're right in the middle of an epidemic, but us as a nation are in denial.
article_snippet: And women are disproportionately affected.
article_snippet: Women are the epicenter of this crisis, which is why I believe Women also have to be the solution.
article_snippet: Women around the country will go out and raise the alarm, raise awareness, raise the stakes and raise millions of dollars to fund serious research into women's brains.
article_snippet: And there's so much research to do and so many questions to answer.
article_snippet: We have to fund this research, because for some reason it's not a priority for the government.
article_snippet: In 2015, Washington will spend an estimated $6 billion on cancer research and $3 billion on HIV/AIDS research, but only $586 million on an Alzheimer's.
article_snippet: But equally important, their own "brain trusts will gather to discuss and disseminate information about what the disease is and isn't.
article_snippet: But AIDS and cancer activists are helping to take AIDS and cancer activists from terrifying to treatable, from hopeless to hopeful.
article_snippet: We want to understand it, prevent it, treat it and beat it.  