If you were wondering how much it might cost to look into how microaggressions affect black women with HIV, we now have an answer: $3 million, apparently. At least, that’s the amount the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have spent on funding a project looking into “Monitoring Microaggressions and Adversities to Generate Interventions for Change (MMAGIC) for Black Women Living with HIV”. The choice of focus has been criticised as ideological rather than scientific, especially from the NIH — a body funded by US taxpayers.
Highlights from the research that has already been conducted include a 2022 paper entitled “Monitoring Intersectional Stigma: A Key Strategy to Ending the HIV epidemic in the United States”, using a “Black Feminist Critique”.
To put that into perspective, the average US family pays $17,902 in taxes, meaning the report is roughly the equivalent of 168 families’ tax burden. Money well spent…
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