Sequan Kolibas is the founder of Hope on T.T.a.P.P. (Testing, Treatment and Peer-led Prevention).
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sequan is a cisgender woman who has been living with HIV for 11 years. In 2020, she co-founded a non-profit, providing mobile harm reduction services, specializing in HIV and hepatitis C testing, treatment and prevention, to her local medically under-served communities. These communities include people involved in sex work, people who use and inject drugs, people experiencing homelessness and those coming out of incarceration. She serves these priority populations because she has experience as a member of each of them.
Her non-profit, Hope on T.T.a.P.P. (Testing, Treatment and Peer-led Prevention), otherwise called HoT, is the first of its kind in Utah. Not only does she provide free testing, she links to free treatment, provides appointment transportation, medication delivery, peer support, patient advocacy, case management and 24 hour crisis intervention services. She is the only woman in Utah living with HIV who is extremely public and loud about it. From attending Congressional meetings in Washington D.C., to interviews with her local news media, she is making waves and challenging conventional medical establishments who are still treating with 1980's stigma and discrimination. She now provides mobile services across the entire state, including awareness and prevention classes, and recently launched online PrEP services. Her goal is to normalize the conversation around HIV, in hopes to end the stigma surrounding sexual health.