GSA Applauds PAHO for Approving the First Regional Strategy for Sepsis

Photo 1. Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, PAHO/WHO Director for the Americas, with Dr. Mariam Jashi – CEO of the Global Sepsis Alliance, and Prof. Konrad Reinhart – President of Sepsis Stiftung

Geneva, May 24, 2025 – On the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Dr. Mariam Jashi, CEO of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA) and Board Member of the UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health (UNITE), met with Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Prof. Konrad Reinhart – President of Sepsis Stiftung and GSA’s Founding President.

Under Dr. Barbosa’s leadership, the Region of the Americas has become the first World Health Organization (WHO) region to develop and adopt a comprehensive framework titled the “Strategy and Plan of Action to Decrease the Burden of Sepsis through an Integrated Approach 2025–2029.”

This groundbreaking strategy addresses the significant impact of Sepsis across the Americas and outlines three Strategic Lines of Action:

  • Enhancing awareness, research, and surveillance on Sepsis

  • Preventing Sepsis through robust infection prevention and control programs, including immunization and WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene)

  • Ensuring equitable access to timely and quality diagnosis and treatment of Sepsis at all levels of care, including ICUs, and expanding access to antimicrobials

Photo 2. PAHO’s 2025-2029 Strategy and Plan of Action to Decrease the Burden of Sepsis

Dr. Jashi and Prof. Reinhart thanked and commended Dr. Barbosa for this historic initiative of PAHO, noting its importance as a model for other WHO regions.

Maria Jashi also shared the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis, the very first multi-year global strategy, launched by the GSA in September 2024 at the German Parliament in partnership with the UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health, the Global Health Sub-Committee of the German Bundestag, and with a special video address from WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Photo 3. 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis Acknowledges the first Regional Sepsis Strategy endorsed by PAHO

During the meeting, Dr. Barbosa and Dr. Jashi discussed opportunities to strengthen collaboration between PAHO and GSA in support to the successful implementation of the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis and PAHO’s Regional Strategy and Plan of Action.

Katja Couball