HIV\/AIDS ambassador Joyce Dzidzor Mensah has revealed that she has never been infected with the virus, despite parading as a carrier for several years.<\/p>\n
She severally told the story in different media interviews of how she contracted the disease in 2007 after sleeping with a man in her church.<\/p>\n
But in an interesting twist to the widely publicised story, Joyce Dzidzor Mensah said on TV3\u2019s New Day programme that she has \u201cnever had HIV\/AIDS.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI plead with the general public and my fans not to be disappointed in me for acting all these years,\u201d she said in a separate interview with the Daily Guide newspaper.<\/p>\n
She was the HIV\/AIDS ambassador for the Ghana Aids Commission and even produced an HIV-themed movie\u00a0\u201cMy Cross Roads\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0which featured herself, John Dumelo, Ekow Smith Asante, Vicky Zugah, Benjamin Kwadey among others.<\/p>\n Why the revelation now?<\/strong><\/p>\n In an interview with the Daily Guide newspaper, Joyce Dzidzor Mensah explained that \u201cI knew there was going to be a time the truth about my status was going to come out and this is the time.\u201d<\/p>\n She apologized to the hundreds of churches both locally and abroad who invited her to share her story.<\/p>\n But she insisted that \u201cIt was worth it because a lot of lives were saved through my advocacy work.\u201d<\/p>\n “I also plead with schools, institutions and banks who have all benefited from my story to forgive me,” she added.<\/p>\n The story she peddled for years<\/strong><\/p>\n I contracted the disease in 2007, through a member of my church. I was to spend a night with him in his house.<\/p>\n When he removed his clothes, I saw some kind of rashes all over his body.<\/p>\n I was terrified, as I innocently asked him why he was like that. He covered up, saying it was a minor skin infection and that it was nothing serious.<\/p>\n But when he wanted to make love to me, I insisted that he must use condom. He told me that he didn\u2019t like using condom.<\/p>\n However, when I insisted, he agreed but he never used it. He removed it while entering into me.<\/p>\n We did it several times that night. After few weeks, I became pregnant for him.<\/p>\n When I told him, I was pregnant, he advised me to abort the baby. But I refused, insisting on keeping the baby.<\/p>\n He later warned me that if insisted, I would have myself to blame in future. I never knew what he meant until I was diagnosed HIV positive.<\/p>\n He also infected other ladies in the church before he died.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HIV\/AIDS ambassador Joyce Dzidzor Mensah has revealed that she has never been infected with the virus, despite parading as a carrier for several years. She severally told the story in different media interviews of how she contracted the disease in 2007 after sleeping with a man in her church. But in an interesting twist to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":74125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[43,38,6],"class_list":["post-74124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}