I took my HIV test in public with intention of committing suicide afterwards – Joyce Dzidzor Mensah
Former AIDS Ambassador and actress Joyce Dzidzor Mensah has reveled that she had contemplated committing suicide at a point when was criticized for lieing about her HIV status.
The former AIDS Ambassador took a public HIV test in June 2021 after she had returned from Germany to clear doubts about her HIV status. She tested positive after the test.
Joyce had earlier admitted being HIV-positive in 2019 after repeatedly denying having the virus.
Speaking on Onua FM’s Efie Ne Fie, she disclosed that she decided to take the test in public because she could no longer contain the public criticisms and insults about her HIV status.
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She said her plan was to commit suicide after taking the test in public but she got help from someone in Germany and rescinded her decision.
“I did that test with the intention that afterwards I was going to commit suicide but I changed my mind because I got help from Germany. I was just leaving suicide notes behind through my actions on social media but I got help.
“The person advised me that I have children who need me and even if I do not love myself, I have children and should think about what they will go through when I die,” she stated.
Background
According to the Ghana AIDS Commission, Joyce Dzidor was made an HIV campaigner in August 2011 after she had tested positive for the virus in 2007.
Her contract with the Commission required her to specifically promote HIV messages in the area of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV.
However, in December 2014, Miss Mensah caused a mockery of the Commission when she publicly denied her HIV positive status.
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The denial by the former AIDS ambassador of her positive status raised questions about how the commission ascertained the HIV status of persons before they were contracted to be ambassadors.
This caused a rift between both parties leading to the termination of her contract.
Later on in 2016, Joyce Mensah confessed to testing positive for HIV leading to public backlash and criticism forcing her to do a public test in 2021 as she couldn’t take the ‘insults’ anymore.
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