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Sepsis affects 84,000 people each year in Australia but it is preventable, please support our fight to tackle sepsis.
september awareness month
World Sepsis Day is 13 September, join us in raising awareness and save a life. Learn how you can get involved this September.
Make your story count
Every lived experience of sepsis is invaluable to raise awareness, educate, prevent and to stop sepsis.
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Make a real difference…let us support your involvement in our Sepsis Australia Community Partner and Advocacy Program.
You’re not alone
Reach out to our network of sepsis survivors, loved ones and those bereaved by sepsis for advice and support.
A life-threatening INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE TO infection
Normally inflammation is a controlled response to infection, but in sepsis control of the inflammatory response is lost resulting the body attacking itself. Discover more about sepsis, recovery and Post Sepsis Syndrome.
Sepsis Australia works to improve patient outcomes and support families
Sepsis Australia is a collaborative of individuals and organisations who are working to prevent sepsis, improve outcomes for sepsis survivors and support families and carers, and those bereaved by sepsis.
New report spotlights sepsis
Sepsis Australia welcomes the release of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s Sepsis Epidemiology Report — the most comprehensive national analysis to date of hospital-treated sepsis in Australia.
Drawing on more than 900,000 hospitalisations between 2013–14 and 2022–23, the report confirms that sepsis is significantly more widespread, deadly, and costly than previously understood. In 2022–23 alone, over 84,000 Australians were hospitalised with sepsis — a sharp increase from earlier estimates of 55,000 cases and 7,400 deaths.
September awareness month 2025
Every September, Sepsis Awareness Month unites people around the country and the world to shine a light on this life-threatening medical emergency. Sepsis affects over 55,000 Australians each year and claims more than 8,700 lives. Sepsis changes lives but with greater awareness, faster recognition, timely treatment, and improved care, we can change the story.
Find out how you can get involved this September!
Faces of Sepsis
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Together, we can raise awareness, improve care, drive research and save lives.