The National Institutes of Health has spent more than $3 million funding a project to study microaggressions against “black women living with HIV.”
“Monitoring Microaggressions and Adversities to Generate Interventions for Change (MMAGIC) for Black Women Living with HIV,” aims to “shed light on how microaggressions and other adversities (i.e. re-occuring trauma and violence) impact HIV viral suppression among [Black women living with HIV] as mediated by mental health symptoms/diagnosis.”
The NIH allocated $72,588 to the project in 2024, but it has received a total of $3,405,724 since 2019, according to a Fix analysis of public data.
Project leader Sannisha Dale, an associate professor at the University of Miami, and program official Gregory Greenwood, have not responded to two emailed requests for comment in the past month.