Joyce Dzidzor Mensah alleged Tuesday that the Commission turned down her request for assistance in taking her abstinence campaign to schools across the country – a cause she said she was very passionate about.
She told Adom FM Tuesday that the Commission told her plainly that preaching abstinence among students was not part of their project.
According to her, even though the Commission, after engaging her services as an Ambassador, never gave her a plan to work with, all her attempts to solicit support to undertake the abstinence campaign, which was her personal initiative, were brushed aside.
The Commission issued a statement Monday insisting Dzidzor Mensah tested positive for HIV in 2007, despite her claims that she is HIV-negative.
It also said it will not bother responding to a litany of allegations levelled against the state agency by the mother of two.
According to the Commission, Dzidzor Mensah was recruited “specifically, to promote HIV messages in the area of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV.”
“She signed a contract with the Ghana AIDS Commission in August 2011. However, on the 12th of November, 2012 the Ghana AIDS Commission formally terminated the contract with Joyce Dzidzor Mensah on account of breach of her terms of contract.
“Unfortunately she failed to respond or engage with the Commission for full exit debrief. On a number of occasions, Joyce had failed to honour her duties related to the “Heart to Heart” Campaign after agreeing to honour those programmes; she failed to appear without prior notice to her colleagues or the coordinators of the campaign; she rather chose to use the time to pursue her personal interest such as a musical project within the first two years of the campaign; which was in breach of her contract,” the statement said.
Source: Ghana/StarrFMonline.com/103.5fm
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