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The National Aids Control Programme (NACP) said the confessions of Joyce Dzidzor Mensah as being HIV negative will not undermine the fight against stigmatization of people living with HIV-AIDS in the country. HIV/AIDS ambassador Joyce Dzidzor Mensah has revealed that she was never been infected with the virus, despite parading herself as a carrier for several years. This revelation has outraged many Ghanaians. The Acting Manager of the National Aids Control programme, Dr Steven Ayisi Addo speaking at an HIV-AIDS Prevalence Research Dissemination meeting in Accra, downplayed the act especially the negative effect it will have on the programme. �I think it will have a certain impact in the overall HIV issue because perhaps it will let the public think that some people are out to defraud them using the status,� he said. He added that the GHS and the National Aids Control programme would continue their fight against the stigmatization of HIV patient�s adding, �as a service, we work with many persons living with HIV in various trainings and capacity building. We make sure that in the process they do not suffer stigma and discrimination.� He encouraged Ghanaians to have faith in GHS and continue to promote the fight �For us at the National Aids control programme and the Ghana Health service all the persons living with HIV are ambassadors and these people had been engaged by AIDS commission to do specific things,� he disclosed.