2011 – Signed with the Ghana AIDS Commission

Joyce Dzidzor Mensah started working with the Ghana AIDS Commission in 2011, after years of trumpeting the message about AIDS by herself and being noticed. After she was signed, she became the Commission’s chief weapon in educating the public about the disease, and for over a year she was everywhere in the media ‘fighting the good fight’.

Source: In her letter to President Mahama in January 2016, Dzidzor Mensah said:

“I entered into an agreement with the Ghana AIDS Commission five years ago to disclose my HIV status publicly giving a human face to HIV.

“With my past experience of stigma and rejection from house to house, abuse and discrimination, I requested for shelter protection from the AIDS commission which was agreed. The campaign finally kicked off with my images on billboards and my videos being aired across the nation.

“I have so far attended over two hundred and fifty schools and an uncountable number of churches nationwide with my education.”