Controversy and former HIV/AIDS ambassador Joyce Dzidzor Mensah seem to be bedfellows. Over the years, she has been embroiled in one scandal or the other and they seem to have affected her children reason she is appealing to the public to stop victimising them.
According to her, the decision she took to declare her positive status and become an AIDS ambassador just to secure a better future some years ago is now doing more harm than good to her children.
“My children are going through a lot, they cannot go to school; I recall one day my son came home from school saying that I should stop the HIV project because they call him the ‘AIDS boy’ in school.
“Just recently, my daughter, who got admission into a school, was sent home because according to a mail sent to me by the authorities they read on the internet that I have HIV. My question is should a child be denied access to education because of HIV even if it is true?
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“Yes, I made a mistake by taking on this task and I didn’t know it will hurt my children this way. My children do not have anything in their blood. I want my life and my children’s back and that is why I am going to all these lengths to clear the air.
“I have not stolen any money like has been rumored, my children have a life to live, they should not suffer for a decision I made,” she said in tears at a presser at the Press Centre in Accra on Wednesday, June 2.
In order to back her story, Joyce and her children took an HIV test in the presence of the media. When the results came, she tested positive while her children tested negative.
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Joyce Dzidzor also debunked reports that she was the lover of former president John Dramani Mahama.
“I have nothing to do with him, he is not my friend, he has not given me any money ever before. The only time we got to meet while I was serving as an AIDS ambassador was when we were launching something,” she said.
Joyce also said that one of the reasons her contract with the AIDS Commission was terminated was because of jealousy. “They didn’t know I will go far with my duties, I did my work so well that it attracted other firms outside Ghana who wanted to work with me and they didn’t like it.”
