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Competing Interests: Competing interests: BG, CF, KP, NES, FF, SM-C, UO, JC, EM, EP, KI, DS, DG, RK, BEN, BB, CK-C, TW, LL and SL-M have no competing interests related to this manuscript to disclose. STJ has received grants from sub-Saharan Africa ConsorTium for the Advancement of Innovative Research and Care in Sepsis (STAIRS), funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and African Research Collaboration on Sepsis (ARCS), funded by UK National Institute for Health and Care Research. STJ is co-founder and Board Member of Walimu, a Ugandan NGO, a Board and Executive Committee Member of the Global Sepsis Alliance and Secretary General and Board and Executive Committee Member of the African Sepsis Alliance. NK is President of the Global Sepsis Alliance. AS has a patent planned for machine learning tool for research support. YBN is staff member of the World Health Organization. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the views, decisions or policies of the institutions with which they are affiliated.