[ 2014-12-15 ]

Joyce Dzidzor Mensah (left)

Arrest and prosecute AIDS Ambassador Joyce Dzidzor...
A member of the communication team of the
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Boakye
has called for the arrest and prosecution of Joyce
Dzidzor, AIDS Ambassador for deceiving the public
that she is HIV patient for many years.

Joyce has claimed over the years that she was HIV
positive but was a healthy person because she was
on antiretroviral drugs.

She has had support and funding from several
organizations, institutions, banks and civil
society in her campaign across the country on how
to prevent HIV and how persons who have tested
positive can live healthily and happily with the
virus.

Surprisingly, Joyce, 27, has told 'News-One' she
was only a scammer and that she decided to engage
in a wild public deceit so as to get a place to
lay her head at a time her neighbours were wrongly
accusing her of having HIV.

“I was known as the HIV ambassador. The story I
shared in the past years was a fusion of my story
and the stories of others. The truth of the matter
is, I was never infected with HIV,” she said.

But reacting to the issue on Oman Fm’s National
Agenda, Nana Boakye says the lady's confession
will jeopardize the credibility of the campaign
against HIV/AIDS as many Ghanaians already don’t
take the HIV/AIDS campaign serious.

He insisted that the lady must be arrested and
prosecuted for the public deception as such
behavior will have a long negative effect on the
Ghana AIDS Commission’s campaign against
HIV/AIDS.

“This is a serious indictment against the
campaign of Ghana AIDS Commission; the credibility
of the campaign will go down if the lady is not
arrested and prosecuted. Already, Ghanaian youths
don’t believe the existence of HIV/AIDS and if
this lady has confessed that she lied for money,
then Ghanaians will believe that the whole
HIV/AIDS infection is a hoax”,, he urged.

Source - Peacefmonline

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