As of today, more than 100 organizations from all over the world have joined the Global Sepsis Alliance and Ethiopian Thoracic society has become one of a few collaborators of global sepsis alliance in African region.

The Global Sepsis Alliance is a non-profit charity organization with the mission to provide global leadership to reduce the worldwide burden of sepsis. The GSA was founded at the Merinoff Symposium, which was hosted by the Feinstein Institute, in 2010 with the aim to raise awareness for sepsis worldwide and reduce sepsis deaths by 20% by 2020.