2025 World SEpsis Day – September 13, 2025
Every year on September 13, we unite worldwide to raise awareness of sepsis. In 2025, our global focus is stronger than ever: reducing sepsis-related deaths, promoting prevention, and spotlighting milestones in the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis.
Theme for 2025: 5 Facts x 5 Actions
This year’s theme — “5 Facts × 5 Actions” — highlights five essential truths about sepsis and five urgent actions that can save millions of lives.
Sepsis is responsible for 1 in 5 deaths globally, yet it remains dangerously overlooked. In 2025, we are calling on governments, healthcare systems, media, and communities to act: improve awareness, invest in prevention, train providers, and make early treatment a priority.
Join the global movement to turn knowledge into action. Together, we can stop sepsis and protect the most vulnerable.
Download the full 2025 Policy and Media Brief to learn more and share the message.
Updated Infographics, Posters, and Toolkits
Freshly updated posters, infographics, and social media graphics are now available — designed to help you spread the word online and offline.
Whether you’re organizing an event, posting on social media, or raising awareness in your hospital or community, these tools make it easy to get involved.
Download the updated materials now and show your support for World Sepsis Day on September 13!
In addition to the new infographics and posters, we have Fact Sheets, Quizzes, Brochures, Video Clips, Pocket Cards, WSD Wallpapers, Pink Picnic visuals, and other Event Materials, all for free and in several languages.
2025 Photo Boards
Take a picture of yourself or your team with one of our WSD promotional boards (available in our toolkit section)
Share the picture with the world on X, Instagram, or Facebook, using the hashtag #WorldSepsisDay, or tweet the picture at us directly – @WorldSepsisDay
We will highlight the best pictures on our website after World Sepsis Day
Merch for World Sepsis Day
A hand-picked collection of high-quality WSD merchandise is available in our WSD Online Shop with worldwide shipping – t-shirts, sports jerseys, hoodies, pens, balloons, masks, lanyards, stickers, and much more…
Share a Sepsis Story
Sharing one of our sepsis stories — or simply talking about the symptoms — could save a life. Sepsis often goes unrecognized until it’s too late, so helping a loved one understand the warning signs, like confusion, fever, rapid breathing, or extreme pain, can make all the difference. Whether you’re a survivor, a healthcare worker, or someone who cares, starting the conversation is a powerful act of prevention.
Online Events / Social Media
Embed the "What Is Sepsis? - sepsis explained in 3 minutes"-video on your website and/or share it on social media (English / Spanish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Turkish / German / Russian / Korean)
Share one (or more) of our freshly-updated WSD Infographics on your Instagram or Facebook page,, or put up a post mentioning @WorldSepsisDay
Share our Sepsis Awareness Clips on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, your website, or wherever else you’d like. They can also be used at physical events
Download, print, and play our Sepsis Quiz
Post about or at World Sepsis Day, using the hashtags #WorldSepsisDay, #StopSepsis, or #SaveLives
Add a pink banner or a button to your website or set up a landing page informing your visitors about WSD
Participate in the photo challenge – see below
Add ‘September 13 is World Sepsis Day – Stop Sepsis, Save Lives’ to your email signature
Organize a chat, webinar, or AMA on your favorite platform
Share the link to our toolkit section (worldsepsisday.org/toolkits) with your colleagues or friends, encouraging them to join the online campaign
Sign the World Sepsis Declaration
The easiest way to show your support for World Sepsis Day is to sign the World Sepsis Declaration – think of it as a petition against sepsis. So far, more than 14,500 entities (hospitals, healthcare workers, non-profit organizations, corporations, and individuals) have signed the declaration. Signing the declaration also signs you up for WSD News – our email newsletter.
2025 World Sepsis Day Event Map
We are planning something new for 2025 – stay tuned!
Join Us on the Socials
Like and share our WSD posts on our social networks:
Share the activities that you plan to carry out within your personal or institutional social network – add the hashtag #WorldSepsisDay and/or #SepsisPrevention.
Events for Medical Professionals
Set up sepsis awareness stalls with sepsis quizzes and sepsis information in the entrance area of your institution/hospital
Download, print, and play our Sepsis Quiz
Offer special educational sepsis training for staff around World Sepsis Day
Share our Sepsis Awareness Clips on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, on your website, or wherever else you’d like. They can also be used at physical events.
Participate in the photo challenge – see below
Organize conferences, symposia, roundtable discussions, and other events
Host a pink picnic – see below
Change the wallpaper of the computers within your institution to one of our WSD Wallpapers (available in the toolkit section)
Show the "What Is Sepsis? - sepsis explained in 3 minutes"-video at your event or embed it on your organization’s website (English / Spanish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Turkish / German / Russian / Korean)
Public Events
Hand out WSD material (such as WSD Infographics, Pocket Cards, the WSD Flyer, or information leaflets) in busy public spaces like town squares, markets, railway or bus stations, and more
Download, print, and play our Sepsis Quiz
Set up small sepsis information stalls, use banners or balloons, and hand out (pink) candy/mints, or small giveaways
Show the "What Is Sepsis? - sepsis explained in 3 minutes"-video at your event (English / Spanish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Turkish / German / Russian / Korean)
Encourage people to participate in the photo challenge – see above
Plan sports events – they are a great opportunity for people to watch or participate, even spontaneously – organize a sports event like a city marathon, a bicycle tour, a volleyball tournament, a sepsis 5k or team run, a Zumba event, or another sport activity – the possibilities are endless. Hand out information leaflets along the way. Use pink bibs or t-shirts to attract attention, and plan the route so lots of people see you, for example, through a town square, or similar.
Organize a family afternoon, together with sepsis survivors, if possible. Set up stalls and decorate the area to attract people. Think about having some music or performers and something fun for the kids like face-painting or sepsis-related handicraft work.
Organize a gala event or a special dinner – World Sepsis Day is a glamorous opportunity to raise awareness for sepsis in your network, including for fundraising. For example, check out the Sepsis Heroes Gala Event by the Sepsis Alliance.
Pink Picnics
Set up a pink picnic. Pink Picnics are social events where pink is used to signify the relation to World Sepsis Day. You can include pink salads or cupcakes, BBQs, treats, beverages, plates, other table decor...and whatever you can think of. Decorate using pink balloons. Both the pink picnic, as well as event materials, are available in our toolkit section.
In Your Company / Institution
Color your cafeteria/canteen pink, by using infographics, stickers, pocket cards, balloons, flyers, and whatever else you can think of
Bake for your colleagues – why not raise awareness for sepsis among your colleagues by making muffins with pink frosting, or a pink cake? They will certainly talk about you and World Sepsis Day…make sure to also share leaflets, infographics, stickers, and other goodies with them as well
Download, print, and play our Sepsis Quiz
Share our Sepsis Awareness Clips with your colleagues or upload them to your organization’s social media accounts
Show the "What Is Sepsis? - sepsis explained in 3 minutes" - video to your colleagues (English / Spanish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Turkish / German / Russian / Korean)
Change the wallpaper of the computers within your institution to one of our WSD Wallpapers (available in our toolkit section)
Encourage your colleagues to participate in the photo challenge – see above
Illuminate a Building
If you can get it done, amazing! A very visible way to raise awareness
Bonus Tip: Take Over a Whole Beach!?
Promotional Material for the 2025 World Sepsis Day
Please take a look at our toolkit section – you will find everything you are looking for and more. If there is something missing or you have ideas for additional material, please contact us. We are also working on more material and more languages, to be released over the next months and weeks leading up to World Sepsis Day. Lastly, we’ll also have a couple of surprises we’ll be announcing later – stay tuned!
Media Coverage
Use your network and the network of your colleagues, friends, members, or supporters to see if there is a chance to have your event covered professionally. Informing your local media about your event as early as possible increases the likelihood of them covering your event dramatically. In any case, make sure to take lots of pictures. A press release and a template for a press release will be available on our website in August.
Why Is World Sepsis Day Important?
World Sepsis Day is held on September 13 every year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against sepsis. Sepsis accounts for at least 11 million deaths worldwide annually. Yet, depending on the country and education, sepsis is known to only 7 – 50% of the people. Likewise, it is poorly known that sepsis can be prevented by vaccination and clean care and that early recognition and treatment reduce sepsis mortality by 50%. This lack of knowledge makes sepsis the number one preventable cause of death worldwide.
Why Should You Participate in World Sepsis Day
World Sepsis Day is the favorable moment to increase public awareness of this poorly acknowledged healthcare disaster, but also to show support and solidarity with the millions of people who have lost their loved ones, or, as sepsis survivors, suffer from the long-term consequences of sepsis. World Sepsis Day is a great opportunity to remind the public, media, national, and international healthcare authorities, healthcare providers, healthcare workers, policymakers, and governments that there is an urgent need to increase and improve education on the facility, regional, national, and international levels. The easiest way to support World Sepsis Day: Share the link for signing the World Sepsis Declaration with your colleagues, families, friends, and everyone who should be informed about sepsis.
We wish you good luck in preparing your World Sepsis Day event and thank you for your valuable contribution in the fight against sepsis!
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