Skip to main content
STI & HIV 2023 World Congress Main banner
Final Program


Icon Legend
Back

Harun Tulunay (he/him/his)

Training and Volunteer Coordinator/Sexual Health Advocate
Positively UK
London, England, United Kingdom

Born in Turkey, Harun worked as an events manager for over 10 years. He moved to the UK in 2015 to escape anti-LGBT+ hostility and discrimination.
When Harun was diagnosed with HIV in 2016, he chose to use the experience to become an ambassador for good sexual and mental health, volunteering for several London-based charities. In 2020 he decided to devote himself fully to HIV support work and left events and digital marketing. He joined Positively UK, where he currently works as Training and Volunteer Coordinator. Since 2022, Harun also manages sexual health wellbeing projects for LGBT Hero, a national health and wellbeing charity in the UK.
In June 2022 he contracted Mpox and was hospitalised for 10 days, becoming one of the most severe cases in the UK. He shared his experience publicly to raise awareness of the condition and to challenge the stigma around it. His story has been shared with the world by WHO and UN to raise awareness.
Harun is committed to speaking publicly and sharing his life experiences to tackle stigma and raise awareness of HIV, Mpox and mental health, as well as the stigma he faced as a gay man in Turkey. He also works as a peer mentor to support others living with HIV and shares up to date information on sexual health both in Turkish and English through his social media.

Disclosure information not submitted.

Presentation(s):