Never repeat my mistakes - Joyce Dzidzor Mensah advises

She paraded herself as an HIV/AIDS bearer when she was not, since 2007 and subsequently became an ambassador and that brought her under severe criticisms after she told the truth last year.

Joyce Dzidzor Mensah, former HIV/AIDS ambassador in an interview with livefmghana.com says that, she will not advise anyone to repeat her act.

“I will not advise anyone to do what I did, when I made my mind to take up this mantle, my mother was not happy about my decision, she asked me not to but I refused to listen. And now you see what is happening to me.

“I have learnt that, sometimes you have to listen. You might want to do it for a good intention but in the end, your deeds might not be appreciated,” she said.

Currently, she is shooting a comic television series called Com Center, which is scheduled to hit the screens soon.

The fake story she peddled for years

I contracted the disease in 2007, through a member of my church. I was to spend a night with him in his house.

When he removed his clothes, I saw some kind of rashes all over his body.

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.

But when he wanted to make love to me, I insisted that he must use condom. He told me that he didn’t like using condom.

However, when I insisted, he agreed but he never used it. He removed it while entering into me.

We did it several times that night. After few weeks, I became pregnant for him.

When I told him, I was pregnant, he advised me to abort the baby. But I refused, insisting on keeping the baby.

He later warned me that if I insisted, I would have myself to blame in future. I never knew what he meant until I was diagnosed HIV positive.

He also infected other ladies in the church before he died.