The Sepsis Fund

Help us double this year's contribution to Swedish sepsis research. We are investing a quarter of a million, with your help we can reach 500,000! Sepsis - the life-threatening condition that occurs when the immune system reacts incorrectly to an infection and begins to damage the body's organs - affects at least 50,000 people in Sweden annually. About 20% die. It makes sepsis as common as cancer and more deadly than heart attack. Despite the fact that it is so common and the mortality rate is so high, the Sepsis Foundation is the only actor that provides targeted funding for sepsis research. Do you want to be involved in supporting the 2022 research call? Now we make a call out - all money in this collection goes in full to this year's research grant to Swedish sepsis research. Do as our ambassador Elin - support the research In March 2019, Elin Rantatalo was severely affected by sepsis during a trip abroad in the Canary Islands. The doctors prepared the family for Elin not to survive, but against all odds she won the battle for life. But her sepsis had consequences that affected her life, both her lower legs and nine fingers had to be amputated. Life as a hairdresser ended, but Elin has with impressive power found the way back to a life full of zest for life. Read more about Elin and her story under Personal Stories at sepsisfonden.se or on her blog at femina.se.